What things can effect the Breath Test?
There are many things that can effect a test of the breath to determine alcohol concentration. There are approximately 102 compounds that can exist naturally in the human body that can look like Ethel Alcohol to a Breath testing machine. The hard part is for this machine to differentiate between real Ethel Alcohol and these other compounds. While the current equipment purportedly has safeguards built into the equipment to protect against improper analysis, the equipment is never tested to determine if the safeguards are working. The Intoxilyzer 5000D, has filters that are supposed to filter out the non-alcohol compounds. Unfortunately Oklahoma uses a filter wheel with only three filters for this purpose. Even though the manufacturer has designed a better filter wheel containing 5 filters instead of 3. They feel this makes the machine more dependable to more accurately analyze your breath, to be sure the result is actually Ethel Alcohol, and not some other compound.
