• Breathalyser

    Posted on November 29th, 2009 BlogOratoryBlogger No comments

    Breathalyzer tests for measuring alcohol in breath are a useful procedure formeasuring blood or breath alcohol levels.  Disposable alcohol test kits and electronic digital breathalyzers are suitablefor use in businesses, by healthcare workers or at home.  Many use them to test against the legal drink drive limit. In the UK this is 80mg/dl or 0.08% BAC (blood alcohol concentration).

    Electronic Breath Alcohol Testing Units

    If you are screening for alcohol on a regular basis, it is more cost effective to purchase an electronic breathalyzer unit. Breath alcohol units use individually wrapped mouthpieces for accurate testing.

     Don’t risk drinking and driving!

    Breath Alcohol Tests – A brilliant commercial version of the “blow in the bag” Breathalyser used by the British Police.
         
    The Home Office Approved personal Breathalyzer testing units are a portable modification of the basic roadside breathalyser used by the British Police Forces for several decades. It uses yellow crystals which turn green in the presence of any alcohol in breath in order to test patients to a pre-determined level.

    This is the breathalyzer repeatedly used when carrying out pre-employment, random or accident based workplace employee drug and alcohol testing. 

    The most accurate time to use these tests is the morning after alcohol consumption to see if you are under the limit enough to drive, this is because if you use them while you are still consuming alcohol the test won’t be accurate because alcohol will be in your stomach but not yet in your blood stream or breath, so you could be under the limit when you test yourself but 10 minutes later, you could be over the limit.

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