I recently attended a seminar on the breath alcohol test machine used in Nashville DUI cases.Tennessee uses the EC/IR II breath test machine manufactured by Intoximeters. The Tennessee breath test machine uses fuel cell technology to detect alcohol.Fuel cells are nonspecific and it is only a presumption that the alcohol measured is ethanol.
The machine will read Ketones as ethanol and give a false reading. Ketones are toxic and the body eliminates them by breath or urine.
What are sources of Ketosis ?
- Diabetes
- Euglycemic Ketosis
- Starvation
- High protein Diets
Those that have been diagnosed as diabetics may have a defense to breath test results in Nashville drunk driving cases.