What is a TSA Hand Swab?
August 31, 2018
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as posted by the channelHurry up and wait. Remove your shoes and belt. Strike a pose in the body-scanning security portal. Put your palms forward, please. Wait, what? TSA officers swab your hands with a cotton cloth to collect explosives residue for testing in an Ion-Mobility Spectrometer (IMS), the machine they put the cloth in that determines if you go to your gate or to a private security screening.
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