Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 16-23 , March 2008

Determination of mouth alcohol using the Dräger Evidential Portable Alcohol System

  • Chancy C. Fessler

      Affiliations

    • Forensic Sciences Program, University of California, Davis, United States
    • ,
  • Frederic A. Tulleners

      Affiliations

    • Forensic Sciences Program, University of California, Davis, United States
    • ,
  • David G. Howitt

      Affiliations

    • Forensic Sciences Program, University of California, Davis, United States
    • ,
  • John R. Richards

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Davis, California Medical Center, PSSB 2100, 2315 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 916 734 1537; fax: +1 916 7347950.

Received 14 March 2007 ,Revised 2 August 2007 ,Accepted 10 August 2007.

References 

  1. Hlastala MP. The alcohol breath test — a review. J. Appl. Physiol. 1998;84:401–408
  2. Labianca DA, Simpson G. Medicolegal alcohol determination: variability of the blood- to breath–alcohol ratio and its effect on reported breath–alcohol concentrations. Eur. J. Clin. Chem. Clin. Biochem. 1995;33:919–925
  3. Jones AW, Andersson L. Comparison of ethanol concentrations in venous blood and end-expired breath during a controlled drinking study. Forensic Sci. Int. 2003;132:18–25
  4. Gullberg RG. The elimination rate of mouth alcohol: mathematical modeling and implications in breath alcohol analysis. J. Forensic Sci. 1992;37:1363–1372
  5. People v. Ireland, 39 Cal. Rptr. 2d. 870 (Cal. Ct. App. 1995).
  6. Moczula B. Alcohol and the law: the legal framework of scientific evidence and expert testimony. In:  Garriott JC editors. Medicolegal Aspects of Alcohol. Tucson, Arizona: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc.; 1996;
  7. Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Section 1219.
  8. Jones AW. Interfering substances identified in the breath of drinking drivers with Intoxilyzer 5000S. J. Anal. Toxicol. 1996;20:522–527
  9. Logan BK, Distefano S, Case GA. Evaluation of the effect of asthma inhalers and nasal decongestant sprays on a breath alcohol test. J. Forensic Sci. 1998;43:197–199
  10. Logan BK, Distefano S. Ethanol content of various foods and soft drinks and their potential for interference with a breath–alcohol test. J. Anal. Toxicol. 1998;22:181–183
  11. Widmark EMP. In: Principles and Applications of Medicolegal Alcohol Determination. Davis, California: Biomedical Publications; 1981;p. 107–108
  12. Forrest ARW. The estimation of Widmark's factor. J. Forensic Sci. 1986;26:249–252
  13. Posey D, Mozayani A. The estimation of blood alcohol concentration. Widmark revisited. Forensic Sci. Med. Pathol. 2007;3:33–39
  14. Gullberg RG, Jones AW. Guidelines for estimating the amount of alcohol consumed from a single measurement of blood alcohol concentration: re-evaluation of Widmark's equation. Forensic Sci. Int. 1994;69:119–130
  15. Wigmore JG, Leslie GM. The effect of swallowing or rinsing alcohol solution on the mouth alcohol effect and slope detection of the intoxilyzer 5000. J. Anal. Toxicol. 2001;25:112–114

☆ Presented at the January 2006 meeting of the California Association of Toxicologists, and in June 2005 to the Graduate Forensic Science Program at the University of California, Davis. Partially funded by a grant from the California Association of Toxicologists.

PII: S1355-0306(07)00067-6

doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2007.08.004

Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 16-23 , March 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution