Baby Bottle/milk thru customs

kossohead

Hi, We are going to spain next week and have a 12 month old baby.
As our flight is 7am in the morning, we would like to give him a bottle of milk as we are taking off which should send him off to sleep.

Are you allowed to take a 9oz bottle of milk thru customs and onto the plane?

cheers

naranja

Baby milk is exempt from the usual restrictions but they will make you taste it as you go through immigration.

Engadine

You are only allowed to take as much as you need for the flight and as naranja says you will have to taste it as you go through security

luxor4t

Here is the FAQ page about security from British Airport Authority (BAA), whichcovers your question :
http://www.baa.com/portal/controller/dispatcher.jsp?CiID=9fc70f54a52e9110VgnVCM10000036821c0a____&ChID=5dc48d620e2c9110VgnVCM10000036821c0a____&Ct=B2C_CT_GENERAL&CtID=448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e120a____&ChPath=Home%5EGatwick%5EGeneral%5EAirport+information%5ESecurity+control%5EFAQs#10
Hope this helps.

Edit: I thought the link would be a lot shorter!

jammin_2

naranja wrote: »

Baby milk is exempt from the usual restrictions but they will make you taste it as you go through immigration.

Yes, because the immigration officer wants to make sure the bottle of milk is not trying to get in without a passport. :rotfl:


(sorry. )

Becles

We travelled with a baby in May, and I decided it was easier to take an empty bottle through and buy cartons of milk and jars of food from Boots airside.

moonrakerz

jammin wrote: »

Yes, because the immigration officer wants to make sure the bottle of milk is not trying to get in without a passport. :rotfl:
(sorry. )

Just to be really pedantic:-

You don't go through customs to board the aircraft and you only go through IMmigration when you enter a country.
It is the airport's security staff who will check the baby's milk.

Inactive

Becles wrote: »

We travelled with a baby in May, and I decided it was easier to take an empty bottle through and buy cartons of milk and jars of food from Boots airside.

Strange how everything airside is deemed to be safe, yet no checks are carried out on it.

:rolleyes:

kossohead

Thanks for all your info...

We will take a made up bottle with us....

Just means our baby will have a cryin fit if he knows anyone is drinkin his bottle :rotfl:

thanks