Schiphol safety procedures in spotlight

The security procedures at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport are to be put under the spotlight again, after an undercover tv reporter managed to board a plane with liquid in duty-free packaging which had actually been swapped for another substance.

In the tv programme, journalist Alberto Stegeman showed how easy it is to buy duty free drinks in a sealed bag at the airport and then leave the secure area to make a swap with what could have been liquid explosives.
Passengers flying to non-Schengen area countries such as the US and Britain go through security after the tax free shopping section.
The reporter was able to take a bottle which had been tampered with to England and then on to Washington.