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Kosecki 2023 Blood-Fermentation Study: Limits and Evidence

A 2023 paper is increasingly cited to shut down “fermentation” defenses in DUI cases. Read closely, it answers a question no one was asking — and the literature it cites cuts the other way.

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Breath-to-Blood Conversion: Scientific Limits and Records

A breath-alcohol instrument measures alcohol in a breath sample. It does not draw or analyze blood. When a breath result is discussed as though it were a blood-alcohol concentration, a conversion assumption connects two different biological measurements. That distinction is not merely semantic. It affects how a result should be…

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Breath-Test Records Needed for Scientific Review

A breath-test ticket is only the summary. Learn which instrument, calibration, reference-material, operator, sequence, and audit records support scientific review.

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Presumptive Amphetamine Urine Screens: What a Positive Immunoassay Does and Does Not Prove

A forensic review of presumptive amphetamine urine screens, cross-reactivity, confirmation, methamphetamine enantiomers, and limits on impairment claims.

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