"It smells like a dead body, " the customs officer told me, as we opened a crate of smuggled ivory in the cargo terminal at Bangkok airport earlier this year.
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OSI's dual-energy X-ray technology discriminates contraband (explosives, currency, drugs) in luggage, while their thermal neutron analysis does the same for bulk cargo in shipping containers and large trucks, without the need to de-crate.