Mylar Bag Materials and How X Ray Scanners Interact With Them

Mylar Bag Materials and How X RayScanners Interact With ThemMylar bags are used to protect their contents from environmental hazards so they don’t havebuilt in systems to defend against detection systems. They are used widely to store food,vitamins, electronics, and long term storage for many reasons including their superior barriercharacteristics.X-ray scanners use density and composition to scan items rather than surface characteristicswhich means things that appear solid or opaque in normal light will scan well with an X-rayscanner.Many people mistakenly think that mylar bags prevent X-rays from being scanned at all becausethey contain an aluminum foil layer; however, the foil layer is much thinner than you may thinkand it behaves differently then solid metal does when being scanned.Depending on the strength of the X-ray scanner, a mylar bag could distort or blur the imageslightly, particularly if there are multiple layers or a dense product in the bag. This visualdistortion can lead to false perceptions of what the X-ray scanner is showing.The x-ray scanning environment could also create confusion. What a low powered x-rayscanner sees can be substantially different from what is recorded on a high resolution securityscanner.For further clarification as to how these types of materials really respond to x-ray inspection,check out the article on Are Mylar Bags X-Ray Proof?, which explains how these types ofmaterials perform under inspection without exaggerating their protective capabilities.