1. An examination apparatus for examining an item under examination in a form of a person or a container, the examination apparatus comprising: a determination unit for determining a relevance level assigned to the item under examination, including a hazard level; an image capture unit for capturing an image of the item under examination; a database; an automated evaluation unit for automatically evaluating at least one section of the image using said database, said automated evaluation unit connected to said image capture unit and said database; a further evaluation unit operated by a user for a visual evaluation of at least one section of the image by the user; an input unit for inputting at least one evaluation input by the user; and a database processing unit connected to and processing said database, said database processing unit processing at least one database entry using the evaluation input in conjunction with a determination of the relevance level.