article_snippet: A half ton shipment of radioactive sanitary products has been discovered by customs officials at a Lebanon airport.
article_snippet: Tests revealed the shipment, which weighed 554 kilograms, had more than 35 times the safe levels of radioactivity.
article_snippet: After  failing to pass the radioactivity scanner test at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, A half ton shipment of radioactive sanitary products 's contents were examined at the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission .
article_snippet: The Lebanon Minister for Finance, the department which is responsible for customs, told Al-Joumhouriya newspaper: 'As a result of the examination of a number of boxes that contained sanitary pads, it appeared that the rate of radioactivity inside them was 35 times more than is permitted.'
article_snippet: A half ton shipment of radioactive sanitary products, which were more than 35 times the safe level of radiation, was discovered by customs officials at a Lebanon airport .
article_snippet: It is not known, but It may be possible the source of the radiation came from the production process.
article_snippet: Last month, the Khalil ordered the Customs Department at Beirut's airport and sea port to send back a shipment of 98 mobile phone covers from China that were revealed to be radioactive.
highlights_snippet: Tests found that the sanitary pads were 35 times more radioactive than the safe level .
  
highlights_snippet: Shipment of radioactive cellphone covers from China were found at same airport last month .