Detecting breath odor from alcohol consumption.

Author(s)
Moskowitz, H. Burns, M. & Ferguson, S.
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Abstract

This paper describes a study which investigated the accuracy of breath odour detection by police officers. The study was designed to examine the ability of highly-trained officers to detect odours from alcohol under optimum conditions. It was conducted indoors with subjects blowing their breath through a short tube directly facing the nostrils of officers whilst the subjects were behind screens. It was found that even in these optimum conditions only 78.5% of detections were correct. There was no ability to specify the blood alcohol content or the beverage consumed.

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C 11154 (In: C 11088 b) /83 / IRRD 894668
Source

In: Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety : proceedings of the 14th ICADTS International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety T'97, Annecy, France, 21 September - 26 September 1997, Volume 2, p. 527-531, 4 ref.

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