Abstract:There are approximately 13,000 fatalities resulting from alcohol‐impaired accidents each year. The use of accurate personal breath alcohol analyzers (BAA) could help reduce this number. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of 5 consumer models of semi‐conductor type breath alcohol analyzers. For this study, each instrument was tested 10 times at three concentrations (0.035%, 0.070% and 0.087%) of a dry gas ethanol standard (National Institute of Standards‐traceable) at both room and human br… Show more
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