I am flying from MAN this evening and saw a small printed notice just after the metal detectors in security screening. It said something along the lines of:

"Do not use Gojo with blue latex gloves as the combination can result in false positives." (High possibility I have misquoted as I couldn't take a photo, it's late and I have a shockingly bad memory).

I can only only assume that this means that using some sort of hand steriliser (speculation) with the gloves causes false positives in the explosives screening instruments. Does anyone have more info on this?

And how safe are we really if latex gloves are triggering alerts at security?