If a driver exceeds the permissible alcohol limit due to the consumption of kefir, kvass or alcohol-containing sweets, this will be considered intoxication and will entail a penalty. Maxim Polyakov, Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative and Operational Law at OE Kutafin University, spoke about this.
He said that Russian judicial practice on this issue has a clear position – so, according to the law, you can get a fine of 45 thousand rubles and lose your rights for one and a half to two years.
– The permissible limit of alcohol for drivers in the Russian Federation is no more than 0.3 grams of ethyl alcohol per liter of blood. This corresponds to 0.3 ppm. He was quoted as saying that when tested using a breathalyzer, the normal range is no more than 0.16 milligrams per liter of exhaled air. TASS.
Polyakov told how a driver without a license was stopped two years ago in a village in the Tyumen region. Before the flight, he ate half a kilogram of sweets filled with alcoholic beverages, and the breathalyzer showed 0.37 milligrams. Traffic police officers “registered” him for drunk driving without a driver’s license, and the car was moved to a private parking lot.
The initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to test drivers for poisoning using saliva has not yet entered into force and is a project that has been proposed for public discussion. Meanwhile, traffic police officers will continue to use devices that detect the presence of ethanol vapor in a driver’s exhaled air. The official representative of the department, Irina Volk, announced this on February 17.