Acumen Law has done a study on acid reflux and chronic burping to expose a potential flaw in administering a roadside breathalyzer.
Lawyer Kyla Lee says an independent research company surveyed 800 adults.
“To determine how often they experience something called acid reflux, which is either regurgitation of stomach contents into the mouth or frequent burping or belching. We found about 38% of people in B.C. experience this either frequently or occasionally.”
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“If you go for testing at the police station in a criminal investigation they do a criminal investigation they do an observation period for 15 minutes before each sample to make sure none of this happens. But roadside they just threw all of that out the window.”
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