BODY scanners being trialled at a German airport ahead of a planned nationwide roll-out were so inaccurate that the whole scheme has been scrapped, a government official has announced.
The so-called backscatter scanners had an error rate of 54 percent during their year-long trial at Hamburg Airport, The Local reported.
The controversial screening devices are similar to the "naked scanners" already in the US at several major airports.
But the German models proved unusable, returning false results triggered by folds in clothing and even by perspiration.
The controversial screening devices are similar to the "naked scanners" already in the US at several major airports.
But the German models proved unusable, returning false results triggered by folds in clothing and even by perspiration.
Selection from Natural Health News
Mar 14, 2011
Smith-Bindman, who has testified before Congress about excessive radiation from medical scans, studied the TSA reports and said she wasn't concerned about the airport X-rays. The risks are "truly trivial," she wrote in an ...