FAMILIES face fresh nightmares at UK airports as the troubled new security scanners reject vital medicine.
Calpol and other liquid nurofens are being flagged by the new high-tech CT scanners being introduced across the UK as potentially ‘an explosive’.
Despite being under 100ml and completely legal to take through UK security, the Artificial Intelligence software in the next-generational CT systems is unable to confirm these are just every-day household medicines.
The multi-million pound new kit instantly rejects and families are forced to wait in lengthy queues for them to be checked by security staff.
A security source said: “Calpol and other liquid nurofens are instantly being rejected. It’s causing huge queues as families always travel with the medicine.
“It’s only …