Cheap Breathalysers Exposed by Fleet News - AlcoSense Commended

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Fleet News and Parkers tested a number of cheap breathalysers and has blown the wistle on their lack of accuracy. AlcoSense on the other hand was commended.

Hunter Abbott, Managing Director of AlcoSense called for legislation and safety standards to be created for breathalysers which will ban dangerous models on the market.

Quoted in Fleet News and Parkers, Hunter Abbott said: “We desperately need to see regulation of [personal use self-test] breathalysers in the UK. At the moment there’s a free-for-all and there’s no test for accuracy or consistency, which means anyone can sell a device in the UK as a breathalyser – it doesn’t actually have to be accurate. When you are potentially talking about the difference between life and death regulation is imperative.”

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http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/External_Link/?sl=http://www.parkers.co.uk/drive

http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/story/?nID=48871