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Blair:
This stuff is a "hand sanitizer", not a "hand lotion", so impact should be dramatically less than a lotion, but not zero.
It undoubtedly contains a VERY low level quaternery surfactant, which is where it gets its sanitizing from. Quaternery's tend to stick to skin, which should minimize transfer.
Not being in assembly, I am a little vague, but it clearly would depend heavily on what the treated hand is touching. Most bacterial quaternery's have a chloride or bromide counter ion, which given the right circumstances give you problems.
One has to ask why anyone needs to have hands sanitized when assembling electronics? I have never heard of a case where bacteria caused an issue, except when Dewey drops Mountain Dew on to an assembly, but the question then is whether it is the bacteria, or the MD?
Best,
Rudy Sedlak
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