He PSOE has registered a proposition not of law for reduce the maximum alcohol limit allowed for drivers. In ‘Horizon’, the doctor Jose Cabrera explains what is ethanol is endogenous and how is it possible test positive in a breathalyzer test without having consumed alcoholic beverages.
Currently in Spain the maximum alcohol level for drivers it is 0.5 g/l of alcohol in blood and 0.25 mg/l in air expired. The PSOE has registered a non-legal proposal to considerably reduce these limits. The new regulations would limit quantities to 0.2 g/l in blood and 0.1 mg/l in exhaled airto all drivers of vehicles, motorized and non-motorized.
In ‘Horizonte’, Iker Jiménez addresses this possible change in regulations together with Angel Gaitanexpert in the world of motors, and the doctor and psychiatrist José Cabrera.
Cabrera explains some cases in which a person could give positive in a breathalyzer test without having ingested alcohol: “The problem is that with 0.1mg/l in exhaled air a person who is taking a medicine that has a alcoholic excipient. There are some medications that have an alcoholic excipient, which is solvent where the medicine goes. You have to carry the recipe in the car.”
The doctor and psychiatric doctor also explains in ‘Horizonte’ that the human body itself manufacturessometimes, a minimal amount of alcohol: “There is also endogenous alcohol. We manufacture ato minimal amount of alcohol. The human body manufactures a small amount endogenously and it may happen that you give 0.1 mg/l in expired air without having drunk anything. In the alcohol test in blood there would be no problem“.
Source: www.cuatro.com
