Why you should not use a lot of perfume during air travel

A passenger claims she was treated like a “criminal” and subjected to a full search after her expensive perfume gave a false positive result in an airport explosives test.

Australian entertainer Ronda Burchmore said she had to go through unpleasant procedures during a checkup at Dubbo Airport in New South Wales, writes The Sun.

Security personnel using explosive trail detection technology use special probes to check for randomly selected passengers who pass security checks.

In the case of Ronda, the false positive was apparently caused by an ingredient in her dear Chanel perfume.

“They had to search me three times, take my documents and write a report after the alarm went off three times. It took about 3 minutes to find out that it was the nitrate in my Chanel perfume that was to blame - they said this happens with expensive perfumes!” — the woman wrote on Twitter.

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Later, the artist said that the dramatic experience was “unusual”.

“This car turned green and the alarm went off. The second time, the security officer said, "We're going to have to do this again, you have something," Rhonda said.

She said she had been subjected to a full search, and was also forced to give her driver's license in front of a crowd of people.

“There were six security people there, like I was a criminal,” the woman says.

In the end, she was told that she was beyond suspicion.

"They said: 'We can't find anything, the only thing is that it's obvious... do you wear expensive perfume?' - said the artist. “I said: “Yes, I have Chanel.”

“It was the nitrate in my Chanel perfume, either on my body or in the little portable bottle I carried with me, that caused all this,” she says. - Obviously, if the perfume were cheap, this would not have happened. There's something special about Coco Chanel perfume."

This is not the first time that the ingredients of cosmetics cause false readings when checking explosives at the airport.

In 2013, an American woman tested positive for explosives at the airport in Columbus, Ohio - it turned out that her hand cream caused a false result. It was reported that security officers took the woman to a room and searched her for 15 minutes. She was told that the hand cream she applied before heading to the airport contained glycerin, which is an ingredient in explosives.

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The same thing happened with an NBC employee who traveled through the Texas Dallas Fort Worth Airport that same year.

A spokeswoman for the US Transportation Safety Administration said that glycerin, which is found in many lotions and cosmetic products, is “not an unusual problem” when it comes to false positives for explosives.

“(The screening technology) must be sensitive enough to detect even the slightest presence of an explosive on a passenger or piece of luggage,” the spokesperson said. “Because of this sensitivity, frequently used items may generate a false positive alarm during testing.”

It is also reported that some heart medicines containing nitroglycerins activated explosive sensors, as well as lawn fertilizers on sneakers and golf clubs.

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