FORENSIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CONGENERS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

The content of congeners and the quantitative relation between them are characteristic parameters for differentiation of alcoholic beverages. After consumption of congener-rich beverages the most concentrated can be demonstrated in blood and urine samples of the consumer. Awareness of pharmacodynamic behaviour, which is the subject of the report, permits conclusions from body-fluid levels on consumed quantities. By this, classification of the beverage in question seems attainable, which could be of interest in forensic cases, where hit-and-run drivers, whose blood contains alcohol, claim to have drunk after the accident. (TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Volume III, held June 15-19, 1980 at Leonard Goldberg.
• Corporate Authors:

  Karolinska Institutet

  Medicinska Fakulteten
  Stockholm,   Sweden 

  Karolinska Institutet

  Medicinska Fakulteten
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • BONTE, W
  • Sprung, R
  • Rudell, E
  • Frauenrath, C
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Volume III, held June 15-19, 1980 at Leonard Goldberg.
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1074-81

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohols; Behavior; Blood alcohol levels; Classification; Conferences; Crash investigation; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Ethanol; Forensic medicine; Forensic science; Hit and run crashes; Problem drivers
• ITRD Terms: 7347: Alcohol; 9001: Behaviour; 1553: Blood alcohol content; 8513: Classification; 8525: Conference; 2231: Drunkenness; 1507: Hit and run drivers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00361961
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 30 1982 12:00AM