Re: [GWL]: Airport Inspection

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Airport Inspection
• From: Marge Talt mtalt@clark.net>
• Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:53:10 -0500
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As far as I know, they are some type of x-ray equipment, designed to
detect plants, footstuffs or seeds, not kill or fumigate anything. 
Purpose is to stop the entry of unauthorized plant material at the
point of entry per the info. on the APHIS site.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Sunwriter7@aol.com
> 
>        My inquiry concerning airport agricultural inspection
machines that 
> look like X-rays (but aren't) -- so what the heck are they? --
elicited this 
> third-day response, which is so far from my question, I'm reminded
of the 
> game "Gossip," where people sit in a circle and whisper a phrase
that's 
> passed along until the last person hears it and says it aloud --
usually to 
> great hilarity, because it's so different from the original:
>        <<But the bottom line is.......what is the matter with us
that we all 
> are
> telling how to circumvent the system when the system is obviously
devised
> for some reason?>>
>        So...anyone know if those machines kill spores, bugs and/or
seeds, or 
> what it is that they do?
> Debra Lee Baldwin

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