Can i take baby milk through security at airport?

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I've heard different things, I've heard you have to buy it airside (at boots) which is what we did last time, but my friend went through with bottled boiled water and powder last time and was ok. I want to take about 6 cartons of baby milk to make sure my daughter has enough until we get our luggage back, where I will put more in to tide us over for the first few days of our holiday.

I forgot I had some in my bag and had to open the bottle and drink it in front of the security staff, bleurgh!

You can preorder as much as you need and collect on the other side, much easier

Yes, and as above.
I saw this with a lady in front of me at airport this week.
She had to drink some in front of them.

You can take it through, but they can ask you to open and taste anything. So, if its cartons, much easier to buy at Boots, and if you want a few, you can phone them ahead and they will put it to one side

Yes, you have to open EVERY SINGLE ONE and taste it in front of the staff, thereby contaminating it. Buy it airside if this is an option. As I understand it, you can contact the airside Boots and pre-order what you need and they'll have it reserved for you.

I once did a long-haul flight with DS1 and took a selection of jars of baby food with me, having experience a horrendous 14-hour delay on the outbound flight and run out of food for him. The bastards made me open every jar. I was in tears of anger and frustration by the end.

Weird, my friend didn't even have to taste her bottled water or give it for testing. Think I'll buy the cartons airside. Not much point having to open all of them, wouldn't really be able to take them then!

I took ready made toddler milk cartons through Heathrow last week (4 of them) and wasnt asked to taste any of them.

I didn't pre-order as they didn't sell SMA for toddlers in the boots.

The regulations may have changed. The incident I describe was in 2008 or 2009 - which is a while ago now - but it was just after the whole 'water bottle' bomb plot thing that sent airline security completely nuts.

Don't the same liquid limitations apply to boiled water for babies as ordinary water for adults. It is a volume of liquids rule isn't it?

We had the same as Jack - had to drink some ourselves before getting on - lolling at DH publically drinking breastmilk from a bottle. He was furious at me laughing at him, proper belly laughing in front of the security guard.

We flew out of Gatwick short haul a couple of months ago and I took three ready to use cartons through security. We weren't asked to drink any of them but they did take them away for a couple of minutes for some kind of additional screening. They didn't break the seals on the cartons though so they fine to use for the rest of the journey.

I flew this weekend without liquids (DS is 22 months and it was a short-haul day flight so didn't need milk and I just filled his beaker from the water fountain once we were through security), however I made a comment to the security guard about making sure his beloved fruit pouches were less than 100ml because I didn't want to taste them and he said 'we don't make you do that anymore' - that was Gatwick, 21st June '14.

Previously when we flew long haul with him I took powder, an empty flask and empty bottles and asked a cafe to fill the flask with boiling water when we were through.