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EU bans 'naked' airport security scanners after cancer fears

X-ray body scanners at airports have been banned by Brussels amid fears they could cause cancer.



The scanners, introduced in 2009, are also said by critics to be too invasive (Picture: Getty)


The devices, widely criticised because they make passengers who go through them appear naked, emit low doses of radiation. The EU has now told member states not to install them until a scientific assessment of the risks has been carried out.



Manchester airport, which has 16 of the £80,000 machines and bars anyone refusing a scan from boarding a flight, has been told it can continue using them for another year. However, no new machines will be allowed to ‘protect citizens’ health and safety’.


The body scanners were introduced in a security crackdown after incidents such as the attempted ‘underwear bomb’ plot in 2009.



They were used at Heathrow but scrapped amid complaints about invasion of privacy. They have also been tested in Germany, France, Italy, Finland and Holland but will be completely banned in April if experts rule they are dangerous.



Research suggests up to 100 US airline passengers a year could get cancer from the scanners. Britain, which argues the scans are a ‘proportionate response to a very real terrorist threat’, could be hit with a fine from the European courts if it ignores the ban. The Health Protection Agency said: ‘The radiation dose from an examination of two or three scans is less than that received from two minutes flying at cruising altitude.’

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/881978-e...r-cancer-fears

[MattJargin]

I would be interested to see the stats on cancer rates among career pilots and flight attendants.

[iqxdvjgmat]

See, it's good we trusted our instincts to boycott those scanners. They won't remove them here though and people won't even look at this story or care. Total trust in the government.

[Pasy]

Naturalnews.com:

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Naked body scanner companies heavily lobbied politicians to push use in airports


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TSA accused of sexual molestation of passengers and pilots


How to opt out of the TSA's naked body scanners at the airport


$10K bomb dogs vs $150K carcinogenic naked body scanners:

[Alulursuifold]

i smelled a rat ever since that sheenie who used to run dhs, left and invested heavily in body scanners...shortly AFTER that the crotch bomber incident and then, predictable the call for body scanners proved by none other than the sheenie! whos name escapes me right now.

[irrawnWab]

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