{"id":91536541,"date":"2011-03-31T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/new-study-says-full-body-airport-scanners-pose-no-risk-to-passengers\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T05:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:24:42","slug":"new-study-says-full-body-airport-scanners-pose-no-risk-to-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/new-study-says-full-body-airport-scanners-pose-no-risk-to-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Says Full Body Airport Scanners Pose No Risk to Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published in the <em>Archives of Internal Medicine<\/em> states that full body airport scanners pose no risk to passengers\u2019 health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by Rebecca Smith-Bindman and Pratik Mehta, two doctors at the University of California in San Francisco, confirmed what many experts had said previously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, passengers passing through the scanners are exposed to an amount of radiation comparable to one to three minutes of flight-time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the safety reassurances, the study\u2019s authors stressed that the scanners should only be used if they are proven effective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scanners should not be deployed unless they provide benefit \u2014 improved national security and safety \u2014 and consideration of these issues is outside the scope of our expertise,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/airport-scanners-release-little-radiation-study-says\/2011\/03\/30\/AFw08g4B_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Washington Post <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine states that full body airport scanners pose no risk to passengers\u2019 health. &nbsp; The study, conducted by Rebecca Smith-Bindman and Pratik Mehta, two doctors at the University of California in San Francisco, confirmed what many experts had said previously. &nbsp; According to the study, passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91536541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91536541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91536541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91536541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897688,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91536541\/revisions\/98897688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91536541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91536541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91536541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}