Needle in a Plane Snack

Mainly spot checks. Sky caterers must obtain and periodically renew TSA certification, but the agency has declined to describe in any detail what certification entails. According to airline security analysts, however, caterers inspect a random sample of the foods rolling off the assembly lines for foreign objects, weapons, and explosives. It?s an imperfect process, but it would be prohibitively expensive to hand-check or X-ray each of the hundreds of millions of chicken cutlets and cheese omelets that sky caterers deliver each year. The manufacturers won?t say what proportion of products is checked, and it?s not clear that sky catering supervisors would be able to spot every security threat even if they checked a tainted food item. Terrorist groups have allegedly developed, for example, a patty-shaped plastic explosive that could be difficult to recognize in a fully dressed burger.

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