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A false positive occurs when the alcohol concentration in the body of the person delivering the breath sample is truly below the pre-set limit, but the device erroneously records it as if the person was above the pre-set limit. This can happen, for example, due to mouth alcohol, when the person delivering the breath sample recently drank alcohol or used mouth wash containing alcohol and did not rinse before blowing into the device.
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