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1) How do I dispose of an expired Dry Gas cylinder?
   Contact your local State Solid Waste Management Office and ask for your local guidelines. You may follow the More Info link to the EPA Government website to get your local Waste Management company contact information.

You may also follow this link Tank Disposal for more instructions.

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2) What is the Legal limit (per se alcohol level) in my state for DUI?
   "In the USA there is a national standard of .080 g/210 liters of breath.
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3) How many drinks does it take to be over .080?
   "There are many factors which effect this concentration. The factors include but are not limited to how much alcohol is in the ""drink"", % of water composition in the users body makeup, recent consumption of food. Try the Drink Wheel for an approximation."
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4) Could I blow a positive reading this morning from the drinking I did last night?
   "Yes, if you drank enough last night and all of the alcohol in your system had not been eliminated your blood and breath would still contain alcohol. "
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5) If you put a penny in your mouth will it lower your breath alcohol reading?
   "If you observe a fifteen minute deprivation period prior to testing, we are not aware of anything that will effect the alcohol concentrations in your breath."
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6) "Can mouthwash, used as directed, produce a reading of 0.02 or greater on a breath alcohol detection device after a fifteen minute deprivation period?"
   No
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7) Will an intoximeters breath alcohol analyzer produce a result on an alcohol free diabetic who is breathing acetone or an alcohol free painter who is breathing tolulene?
   No. Intoximeters instruments that use a fuel cell as the primary analytical sensor only respond to alcohol on the human breath.
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8) What is a positive Test?
   Any reading at or above your policies predefined limit
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9) Why is 0.01 often used for zero tolerance testing?
   "With a breath test instrument, as long as the sampling was proceeded by a 15 minute deprivation period, results of 0.01 or above , on a properly calibrated instrument, indicates that alcohol is present. This is consistent with the reporting of blood samples. Blood samples are usually reported as a two digit result (.##) therefore , when using blood, 0.01 is the lowest reported result. "
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10) Can eating food cooked in alcohol cause a positive test?
   "Cooking typically boils off the alcohol and leaves little more than the flavor of the beverage, however if all the alcohol has not been eliminated in the cooking process, a result could occur from the ingestion of the alcohol since eating alcohol is little different than drinking alcohol."
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