Éthylotest

The éthylotest is a technique of evaluation of the Alcoolémie.

In Belgium

The éthylotest is the legal technique of evaluation of the blood alcohol content, in particular to establish the alcoholic Intoxication within the framework of Accident S of the road. The samples are appraised by forty Laboratoire S approved by the police courts. A dissatisfied person of the result of a breathalyser test can ask for a Contre-expertise.

The éthylotest is based on the method " Rack-Delaunois" , become legal in 1959. According to this method, the rate of ethanol is measured as soon as possible after the facts, then is adjusted to take account of the natural elimination of alcohol by the metabolism, at the rate/rhythm of approximately 0,18 G/L per hour.

Point of view

The experts in blood alcohol content generally estimate the method little specifies: the ethanol rate is not necessarily representative of the alcohol catch because of other sources of ethanol can intervene. They thus ask the legal recognition of a more precise technique, the Gas chromatography. While waiting, they encourage the dissatisfied people of an expertise to ask a counter-evaluation.

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