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Citation

Strawsine E, Lutmer B. J. Forensic Sci. 2018; 63(4): 1284-1290.

Affiliation

Breath Alcohol Program, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Poplar Bluff, MO, 63901.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.13691

PMID

29143333

Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine if the application of alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHSs) to the hands of a breath test operator will affect the results obtained on evidential breath alcohol instruments (EBTs). This study obtained breath samples on three different EBTs immediately after application of either gel or foam ABHS to the operator's hands. A small, but significant, number of initial analyses (13 of 130, 10%) resulted in positive breath alcohol concentrations, while 41 samples (31.5%) resulted in a status code. These status codes were caused by ethanol vapors either in the room air or their inhalation by the subject, thereby causing a mouth alcohol effect. Replicate subject samples did not yield any consecutive positive numeric results. As ABHS application can cause a transitory mouth alcohol effect via inhalation of ABHS vapors, EBT operators should forego the use of ABHS in the 15 min preceding subject testing.

© 2017 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.


Language: en

Keywords

alcohol inhalation; breath alcohol; forensic science; hand sanitizer; mouth alcohol

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