Airport passengers have one week before new EU hand luggage law kicks in

Liquid rules were set to change at airports (Image: Getty) Passengers travelling through European Union airports have just one week left before new regulations on hand luggage come into effect. Starting September 1, all travellers will be prohibited from carrying any liquids, gels, or aerosols in containers exceeding 100ml in their hand luggage. The only exceptions to this rule are baby food and prescribed medicines.

This regulation, which has been in place for nearly 20 years, was initially introduced in 2006 following a foiled terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks on transatlantic flights. While many airports across the EU continued to enforce the 100ml limit on liquids, some began introducing new scanning technology aimed at easing these restrictions. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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