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Welcome to the Autumn/ Winter 2008 edition of Access Diagnostics Breathalyser & Alcohol News page
The news page is designed to keep you up to date with the services and products that Access Diagnostics offers, as well as covering alcohol related topics of interest , recent alcohol news issues and developments in the breathalyser world.
I hope you enjoy reading and if you have any comments or suggestions please email editor@accessdiagnostics.co.uk
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ADTUK's Editor
IN THIS ISSUE
1) News from Access Diagnostics, New products-Alcomate Prestige
2) Discount Coupons-5% & 10%
3) In the news recently-'One drink and you’re over'
News from Access Diagnostics
1)NEW PRODUCTS
The AlcoMate Phoenix is our new flagship breathalyzer that combines advanced PRISM (Precalibrated Replaceable Intelligent Sensor Module) technology, professional accuracy and modern design into a convenient, easy-to-use device.
2) DISCOUNT COUPONS 5% & 10%
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3) IN THE NEWS RECENTLY
SNP prepares to backtrack on alcohol proposals
from The Times Sept 7th 2008
Scottish Ministers are set to rethink controversial plans to ban under-21s from buying alcohol in off-sales and to establish separate supermarket checkouts for people buying drink.
Read the full story here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4699692.ece
My mission to find low-alcohol booze From The TimesAugust 23, 2008 by John Naish
We're all told to drink less but finding tasty lower-strength wine and beer is tougher than you think
There are many ways to make a barman eye you suspiciously, but one of the most effective is to ask him whether he stocks moderately alcoholic beer. Not non-alcoholic, just low. Moderation in all things may be a virtue, but it's damned difficult in our culture of rocket-fuel booze, as I found on my attempt to spend a week drinking only wine with single-figure alcohol content and beer with less than 4 per cent.
Why the mission? I'm a gregarious creature who believes that time spent socialising in bars is never wasted. And I enjoy having a good libation while holding forth. But that doesn't make me a drunk. I'd begun to notice, however, how in recent years my hangovers have worsened and my pre-slurring capacity has shrunk shomewhat. I blamed this on advancing age - until I started looking at the labels.
Over the past 20 years the alcohol levels of our drinks have steadily spiralled. Consumer culture, with its promise that more of anything is always better, has boosted the befuddling powers of our booze, to the point where one small 330ml bottle of Carlsberg lager can be enough to put a woman over her government-recommended limit of three units a day.
Read the full story here including some recomendations for low alcohol beers and wines worth a try
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article4587902.ece
Drink limits ‘useless’ The Times October 20, 2007
Guidelines on safe alcohol consumption limits that have shaped health policy in Britain for 20 years were “plucked out of the air” as an “intelligent guess”.
The Times reveals today that the recommended weekly drinking limits of 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 for women, first introduced in 1987 and still in use today, had no firm scientific basis whatsoever.
Subsequent studies found evidence which suggested that the safety limits should be raised, but they were ignored by a succession of health ministers.
Read the full story here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article2697975.ece
'One drink and you’re over: drivers face lower limit to cut road deaths' Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent The Times June 15, 2007
Motorists could find themselves over the alcohol limit after just one drink under a proposal to bring Britain’s drink-drive law into line with the rest of Europe.
The Government is considering lowering the limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg and later this year will publish a consultation paper to gauge opinion. With a 50mg limit, most people would be able to consume only one 175ml glass of standard-strength wine or half a pint of strong beer and remain legally fit to drive.
The Department for Transport has rejected calls by the British Medical Association and the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) for a lower limit. It wanted police to focus on those well over the existing limit, who were most likely to cause a crash.
But ministers have been embarrassed by a series of studies showing that Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe in tackling drink-driving. All the other main European countries have lowered their limits either to 50mg or 20mg. The Irish Republic and Luxembourg are still on 80mg but have indicated that they will move to 50mg.
The number of people killed in drink-drive crashes in Britain has risen by more than a fifth in the past seven years, from 460 in 1999 to 560 in 2005. Over the same period, Germany and the Netherlands have reduced drink-drive deaths by more than 50 per cent.
Research by University College London found that lowering the limit to 50mg would prevent an estimated 65 deaths and 230 injuries a year in Britain. It would also save the economy £119 million a year by reducing medical costs and lost working time.
Read the full story here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1934912.ece
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