Dutch police have arrested two people at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport for allegedly having hidden three kilograms of cocaine in sandwiches, authorities said.

Inspectors found the drugs last week in 33 sandwiches in the luggage of the two, a 30-year-old man from Suriname and a Dutch woman, aged 56.

"With the unpacking of the sandwiches ... it transpired that they were not fit for consumption," a military police statement said.

"They were filled with about 100 grams of cocaine each."

- AFP