Ellen Pompeo was detained by TSA for an hour due to organic sunflower seeds in her carry-on bag. TSA suspected a chemical on the packaging of the sunflower seeds, prompting a bomb squad investigation.

"I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy," Pompeo recently told Travel + Leisure.

Ellen Pompeo says she faced a sunflower seed-related security snafu at the airport, when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) brought in a bomb squad to inspect her snack food.

“I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy,” she says. “They literally held me for an ...

“I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like, organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy,” Pompeo, 55, told Travel + Leisure in an ...

The culprit? A bag of sunflower seeds. “I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy ...

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"I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon," Pompeo told the outlet. "They literally held me for an hour, and they brought the bomb squad in." The actress ...

Amanda Edwards / Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA “I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy ...

"I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy," she told Travel + Leisure in an interview ...

“I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy. They literally held me for an hour, and they ...