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. 2020 Aug 3;5(4):300–308. doi: 10.1080/20961790.2020.1780720

Table 3.

Differences between co-existing breath-alcohol concentration (BrAC) and venous blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) in relation to a person’s actual blood–breath ratio (BBR), compared with the ratio of 2 100:1 (shaded) used to set the statutory breath-alcohol limit for driving.

Venous BAC g/100 mL BBR 1 800 BBR 1 900 BBR 2 000 BBR 2 100 BBR 2 200 BBR 2 300 BBR 2 400 BBR 2 500
0.020 0.02 0.023 0.02 0.022 0.02 0.021 0.02 0.020 0.02 0.019 0.01 0.018 0.01 0.017 0.01 0.016 0.01
0.050 0.05 0.058 0.05 0.055 0.05 0.052 0.05 0.050 0.05 0.047 0.04 0.045 0.04 0.043 0.04 0.042 0.04
0.080 0.08 0.093 0.09 0.088 0.08 0.084 0.08 0.080 0.08 0.076 0.07 0.073 0.07 0.070 0.07 0.067 0.06
0.100 0.10 0.116 0.11 0.110 0.11 0.105 0.10 0.100 0.10 0.095 0.09 0.091 0.09 0.087 0.08 0.084 0.08

Results are shown before and after truncation of the third decimal place, which is common practice in many legal jurisdictions.