Originally Posted by goalie

I'm not sure if this is anything or not but we have two separate posts of two different incidents with references to TSO gloves alarming....

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/15742072-post1.html

And from the above post



http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/15738817-post13.html

And from the linked article in the above post....



Question for our resident TSO's: With a swab, "the machine" tests the swab for explosives but if you are only doing a patdown, do you now test your gloves for ETD after the patdown? If yes, I can see a myriad of false alarms being caused simply by the combination of type clothing material being patted down and any dyes used in said material not "playing nice" with the sniffer.

now otoh, but wouldn't it be a kick in pants if the TSA ordered a bad batch of gloves that are now giving out false positives