Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES
Division 25 - Missouri State Public Health Laboratory
Chapter 30 - Determination of Blood Alcohol by Blood, Breath, Saliva, and Urine Analysis; and Determination for the Presence of Drugs in Blood, Saliva, and Urine
Section 19 CSR 25-30.051 - Breath Analyzer Calibration and Accuracy Verification Standards
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment further defines the required certification of breath alcohol simulators, the reporting of simulator certification on maintenance checks, adds a new supplier of compressed gas mixtures, and removes a reference to restrictions that only applied to instruments no longer used for evidential breath alcohol testing in Missouri.
(1) Standards used for the purpose of verifying and calibrating breath analyzers shall consist of standard simulator solutions or compressed ethanol-gas standard mixtures.
(2) Standard simulator solutions, used to verify and calibrate evidential breath analyzers, shall be solutions from approved suppliers. The standard simulator solutions used shall have a vapor concentration within five percent (5%) of the following values:
(3) Approved suppliers of standard simulator solutions are-
(4) Any breath alcohol simulator used in the verification or calibration of evidential breath analyzers with the standard simulator solutions referred to in sections (2) and (3) of this rule shall be certified against a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) traceable reference thermometer or thermocouple between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013, and a nnually thereafter. Proof that the simulator is in certification shall be shown by entry of the simulator serial number and expiration date of the certification period on the maintenance report required under 19 CSR 25-30.031, or by certification report as issued by the department.
(5) Compressed ethanol-gas standard mixtures used to verify and calibrate evidential breath analyzers shall be mixtures provided from approved suppliers. The compressed ethanol-gas mixtures used shall have a concentration within five percent (5%) of the following values:
(6) Approved suppliers of standard compressed ethanol-gas mixtures are-
(7) Maintenance reports completed prior to the effective date of this rule shall be considered valid under this rule if the maintenance report was completed in compliance with the rules in effect at the time the maintenance was conducted.
*Original authority: 192.006, RSMo 1993, amended 1995; 577.020, RSMo 1977, amended 1982, 1983, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2006; 577.026, RSMo 1982; and 577.037, RSMo 1982, amended 1983, 1988, 1993, 1996, 2001.
