CURRENT STATUS OF FORENSIC BREATH ALCOHOL ANALYSIS

As long as the requirements mentioned in the expert opinion of the concerning analyzers and measuring systems are not fulfilled, the measuring results can only be used as pretest results. At the present time there are not any analyzers available in the world market which fulfill all requirements. Even if all requirements were fulfilled, many doubts still arise concerning the actual probative force of breath alcohol analysis. They are essentially based on inadequate knowledge of physiological and pathological influences. If the presuppositions are disregarded, it should be possible to lay down analogous results from the blood alcohol concentration limits to breath alcohol concentrations, but problems will always appear if conversions to another time or comparisons with blood alcohol concentration values are to be effected.

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  Bund gegen Alkohol im Strassenverkehr eV

  Alsterchausee 17
  D-2000 Hamburg 13,   Germany  3533-5929
• Authors:
  • Gruner, O
  • Bilzer, N
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 98-107
• Serial:
  • Blutalkohol
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Bund gegen Alkohol im Strassenverkehr eV
  • ISSN: 0006-5250

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol breath tests; Blood alcohol levels; Random breath tests; Testing equipment
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00634871
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 3 1993 12:00AM