A Primer On Air Cargo Security  The industry readies for a
December TSA deadline to screen all cargo on international
passenger planes bound for the United States.  On Dec. 3, the
Department of Homeland Security will enforce a new regulation
requiring air carriers to screen 100 percent of all cargo aboard
international inbound passenger flights. So how prepared is the
cargo industry? What still needs to be done? And what’s the
difference between “screening” and “scanning,” anyway?  How did
we get here?  The initiative was mandated as part of the
recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act that President George
W. Bush signed into law in August 2007. Originally, legislators
set a deadline of August 2010 to screen all such air cargo. The
law required the Department of Homeland Security to establish a
system that would screen all cargo transported on passenger
aircraft to be “commensurate” with the level of security used
for checked baggage.  ‘Commensurate?’ Please explain?  The law
does require all air cargo to