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Can't have small containers of applesauce in carry-on luggage for flight
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Eden Foods Organic Applesauce:
1/2 cup = 4 fl oz = 118 ml Wt = 122 mg Therefore the specific gravity is 122/118 = 1.03 So 113 mg / 1.03 mg per ml = 109.7 ml = 3.7 oz The TSA person was right. |
Anonymous
Restricting these foods to babies vastly limits the amount that goes through, making it easier to check, and saving us all time. |
Anonymous
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I have never tried to get any liquids (juices, water, applesauce, etc) through with my preschooler. It never occurred to me to try. I would suggest simplifying your life by forgoing applesauce, filling up your own water bottles after security, and buying whatever milk/juice you need after security.
You can get liquid medicine through if you remove it from your bag, run it through separately, and declare it to a screener. Sometimes there is a separate liquid medicine line (usually the same as the family line) -- look for that one. Or you can buy small enough (3oz or less) bottles of liquid medicine and include them in your ziploc bag of liquids. |
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| I am sorry that happened to you. Bottom line is TSA SUCKS!!! There is no consistency in their policy and much less their enforcement. At the airport in DC (Dulles) I was forced to open all 12 jars of earth's best baby food (which I did not want to put in my luggage for a slew of reasosns). Despite my repeated pleas that once you open them,you have to use them quickly especially if they aren't refrigerated....there was zero solution. I felt like letting my son throw the turkey dinner at the moron who would not budge. Anyway, someone has to employ incompetent people....why not the federal government! |
Anonymous
She didn't have a baby. |
Anonymous
Exactly! I am tired of people beating up on TSA screeners. It is a tough job that I know I could not do. Amazing how quickly people forget about 9/11, Madrid, London tube bombing, London liquids plot, Richard Reed, Mumbai, and all of the other frightening plots to kill innocent people! |
Anonymous
Most screeners are fine. Well, maybe not most, but a lot. More than half. But some of them are just using their job to lord their power over people. Like the one who made the PP open all her jars of baby food. That is pure idiocy. Yes, there are plots to kill innocent people. Yes, someone could theoretically make a bomb that looks like applesauce. But jesus h christ on a cracker, there either needs to be consistency or they need to scrap these "rules" and start over. In fact, a year ago there was talk of scrapping the 3 oz rule altogether. I don't know what happened to that, since I haven't traveled since I read that. |
Anonymous
But given that the law says you can only bring enough food to last your infant through the flight, and an reasonable delays -- you must have been planning on serving all 12 of those jars to your babies (triplets?) that very day. The solution is to follow the law and only bring what you're allowed to carry by law. |
Anonymous
What's a "reasonable" delay? And maybe she was flying internationally, in which case 12 jars would constitute an appropriate amount of food for the flight and delays. Depending how old her baby was, 12 jars seems reasonable to me. Sure, it might be a few more than she needs, but having traveled with infants internationally and on long domestic flights, I would err on the side of caution just like the PP. |
Anonymous
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I don't see why TSA was at fault. They only correctly enforced the rule that is given to them. That's their job.
Had the applesauce been under the limit then fine. But as it turns out TSA was right. So if you have a problem, take it out on the person who makes the rules, not the one paid to enforce them. |
Anonymous
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It honestly depends on the airport and the person who is checking your bags. Some people are just more strict about the rules than others. I have found it just makes things harder to argue with people about it, some TSA agents are very nice and helpfull, some hate their jobs and look to make things difficult for people. If you bring applesauce on 5 different flights chances are you will get through with it some of them and others may stop you. Just be aware that those items have a chance of being taken away and pack other snacks.
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Anonymous
This is so true. I have flown several times with my now 18 month old twins. When I was still nursing and carrying BM and food around for them, I would always show the cooler pack to TSA. Across BWI, Dulles and National, there was no consistency. Some screeners would just nod their heads and tell me to put it through x-ray. Other screeners would want to open the pack to see inside. Some would want to use that scanner stick on the BM and/or food. Some TSA would make us take Robeez off the babies, others wouldn't care. We found that the most scrutiny we've ever had was in the tiny Gunnison, CO airport. They did everything by the book. I don't mind the extra scrutiny. It's the inconsistency that makes me crazy! When we flew out of the country, I had at least a dozen large jars of food in the cooler pack, including apple sauce and yogurt. TSA just asked where we were going as the bag went through x-ray. Never even opened it that time. |
Anonymous
| What irks me is the carry-on regulations in conjunction with the checked bags fees (which, I realize, the airlines and not TSA are to blame for). I wouldn't mind forgoing liquids in my carry-on if I could check my bags! |