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This page is dedicated to caps of products other than a drink. You will find cooking oil, cleaning product or pills that (supposedly) cancel the effects of alcohol.

Alsaver

Faced with road accidents, directly attributable to ambient alcoholism, the Scandinavian countries decided in the early 1960s to introduce alcohol tests to randomly check drivers. They were followed in 1967 by Great Britain and Belgium.

Although obvious drunkenness while driving has been punished by the Belgian code since 1939, it was authorized until 1975 to drive with a blood alcohol level just below 1.5 g/l , three times the current limit. This first limit was set in 1958, before being reduced to 0.8 g/l in 1975 and to 0.5 g/l in 1994.

The first breathalyzers, the famous balloons, only appeared in 1967; before that, officers had to decide whether to subject a suspected driver to a blood test. This first type of test was not, however, valid as evidence before the law. Based on the coloring of crystals, it needed to be confirmed by a blood test.

In the 1970s, the company Alsaver International Distribution appeared in Belgium, offering a range of fruit juices or fruit-based drinks, lemonades, syrups and energy products for well-being. But above all, it offered a very powerful energy product supposed to allow to pass alcohol tests by reducing the effects of alcohol.

From January to May 1975, it sponsored the Belgian-Dutch cycling team Alsaver-Jeunet-de Gribaldy.

See (on Youtube) a report filmed by Radio-Canada in Brussels in 1978 on the anti-breathalyzer product.

The company Alsaver International Production Establishment had been registered in Liechtenstein since April 1975, and was probably the parent company.