Some Thoughts on Blood Alcohol Level and the Present Law
Abstract
7 Some Thoughts on Blood Alcohol Level and the Present Law 6y C. J,rurs (Westem Cotmties Laboratories, I Worrall Road, Bristol.8) Considerable controyersy surrounds the interpretation of results ol samples taken nnder the Road Safety Act, 1967, Part I, the relationship between blood and urine samples, and the correctness of sampling methods. The permissible blood alcohol level has been fixed by the Act for the U.K. at 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood, or 107 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of urine. The legal limit varies in different countries, being 5 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood in the U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia, 25 mg in Japan, 50 mg in Scandinavia and some states of the U.S.A., 80 mg in Belgium, Austria and France as well as in the U.K.
