Assessment of Response of the Intoxilyzer(R) 8000C to Volatiles of Forensic Relevance In Vitro, Part I: Acetone, Isopropanol, and Methanol
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The response of the Intoxilyzer 8000C (version approved for evidentiary breath alcohol testing in Canada) to volatile solvents in vitro is described. Acetone, isopropanol, and methanol were prepared as aqueous solutions or dilutions of standard alcohol solution (SAS; 1.21 mg ethanol/mL) to generate apparent blood ethanol concentrations (aBEC) of 50 or 80 mg/dL. Solvent concentrations examined were relevant to clinical or impaired driving scenarios. Replicates of 20 aBEC measurements were made for each mixture and the actuation of the "INTERFERANT DETECT" message (IDM) was noted. Measurements of aqueous acetone (0-40 mg acetone/dL), isopropanol (0-100 mg isopropanol/dL), and methanol (0-100 mg methanol/dL) yielded aBECs of 0, 0-43, and 0-55 mg/dL, respectively. The minimum concentration examined at which the IDM was actuated in 100% of replicates was 25, 30, and 100 mg/dL for acetone, isopropanol, and methanol, respectively. The maximum concentration examined at which the IDM was actuated in none of the replicates was 5, 10, and 50 mg/dL for acetone, isopropanol, and methanol, respectively. In examinations of acetone/isopropanol mixtures in diluted SAS where the IDM was not always actuated, the maximum BEC overestimation was 10 mg/dL. Overall, the potential for significant undetected BEC overestimation is low and may be further reduced through truncation of test results and subject observation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".