But then she wasn`t allowed to put it in the plastic bag with her other stuff in the security area. She would have to leave the area and then come back once it was done.
That's definitely inconsistent with other airports then, based on the two clueless individuals in front of me at Stansted last week who had nothing in plastic bags but were allowed to search through their hand luggage and find everything, hand it to the security man who put it all (after checking the quoted volume on ech item) in a plastic bag he took from the supply on top of the x-ray machine. But then they weren't wearing flight uniforms...