Thursday, January 13, 2011

A NEW "SALIVA" TEST AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE DUI BAC MACHINE?

Ohio and other states may in the future use "saliva" tests as alternative test (called the the Alco-Screen 02 or the QED A150 Saliva Alcohol Test) for the classic breathalyzer machine that has been long used to test blood alcohol content. Some in the testing scientific community have concerns about the reliability of these tests (some are already being used in the employment screening/monitoring context). The officer would have to swab the saliva out of a driver's mouth, and then apply certain chemicals to see if the swab changes to a certain color.

Ohio already is engaged in some debate over the use of a newly designed breath machine (this new machine automatically does some things that the current machines do not).

Stay tuned.

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