How much can I drink and stay within a 50 mg/100ml limit?
Alcohol at any level impairs driving. So don’t-drink-and-drive is the right message. The evidence we’ve seen and heard, suggests that people can drink substantially and stay within the current limit, even though they are impaired. People’s response to the same level of alcohol will vary with age, gender, weight, time of day, the time taken to consume the alcohol, whether they eat too, their liver function and other variables. Given all of this uncertainty, it would be misleading to specify a precise limit to which people can drink. But 50 mg/100ml is not zero, nor even the ‘practical zero’ of 20 mg/100ml which other nations have introduced. But I have noted the misleading stories in the media that people will be at risk of breaking the law if they drive on a single drink and I am confident that nobody will breach a 50 mg/100ml limit on one pint of standard strength beer, one small glass of standard strength wine or one standard strength short measure of spirits.
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