NotUrsula
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2002
The deal w/ breastmilk on planes just changed days ago.
It used to be that if you did not have the child with you, you could not carry more milk than would fit in your 3-1-1 baggie, which for working moms travelling on business meant that you either had to dump the excess milk or have it packed hard-frozen to ship home in checked baggage. IMO, this was the absolute most moronic of the TSA rules.
Now you can carry packaged breastmilk in whatever quantity you have whether the child is present or not, but it must be labeled as human milk, and declared at the checkpoint (which essentially means presented in a separate container. If it's labeled, you don't have to state out loud that it is human milk.)
Note that the info on breastmilk in the TSA website's "Traveling with Children" page is now (as of August 4th, 2007) WRONG!!! Typically for the Feds, they haven't got around to changing it yet, though the rule change was effective today. The correct info is on the press release page, way down at the bottom: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/sop/index.shtm#milk
It used to be that if you did not have the child with you, you could not carry more milk than would fit in your 3-1-1 baggie, which for working moms travelling on business meant that you either had to dump the excess milk or have it packed hard-frozen to ship home in checked baggage. IMO, this was the absolute most moronic of the TSA rules.
Now you can carry packaged breastmilk in whatever quantity you have whether the child is present or not, but it must be labeled as human milk, and declared at the checkpoint (which essentially means presented in a separate container. If it's labeled, you don't have to state out loud that it is human milk.)
Note that the info on breastmilk in the TSA website's "Traveling with Children" page is now (as of August 4th, 2007) WRONG!!! Typically for the Feds, they haven't got around to changing it yet, though the rule change was effective today. The correct info is on the press release page, way down at the bottom: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/sop/index.shtm#milk