Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test post

Bruno

Veteran Expediter
Fleet Owner
US Marines
Eatting a poppy seed bagel can make you make you test postive on a drug test. I was just watching mythbusters and they confrimed it. Both guys tested postive after eatting poppy seed bagels. So beware of poppy seed Bagels. :+
 

cheri1122

Veteran Expediter
Driver
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Snopes confirmed that, while stating that some "agencies" are now using a standard of 2000ng/mL to avoid the false positive results. I don't eat poppyseed bagels, but when I'm in the mood to make kolaches, poppyseed is a favorite filling, so this is not good news!
 

ATeam

Senior Member
Retired Expediter
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Wow! You learn something new every day! I just checked with an RN I know well (my wife Diane). She said, "Yes. That's been out for years." There is a second-level test that can sort the poppy seeds out of the results and perhaps more recently a more accurate test that can do the same.
 

Turtle

Administrator
Staff member
Retired Expediter
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Testers have increased the threshold for a positive test to allow for the low level of opiates in the urine as a result of poppy seeds.

A Vick's inhaler will cause a methamphetamine positive, too. So if you are on a Vick's inaler, let the tester know so they can perform the additional tests that will rule out the inhaler.

There are 900,000 poppy seeds in a pound.
 

marvinkwagner

Not a Member
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Test Test Test, Know somthng Ive take more ##### test in the last 23years then many, If you were in the Military and On the PRP Program You know what Im talking about once a week ya here.

Never did Drugs as kid, didnt do them in the military and I certainly Not Now, By the WAY As Many have seen I dont drink Neither. Proof was in the pudding at Paradise Island.
But sure had funn parasailing.

Live Lfe to the fullest and Experience it sober no alachol or drugs, Its a blast.

Have a Safe One
Kev
 

Moot

Veteran Expediter
Owner/Operator
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Eating marijauna brownies will give you a positive test result. So will crack cake and Benzadrine banana splits. You are what you eat.
 

greg334

Veteran Expediter
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Here is a really dumb question;

So you get a positive (of course it is not drug related), what is your carrier going to do?

Will they allow you to retest with a different diag panel or will they boot you?

I think everyone should ask thier carrier.

by the way I always thought everyone knew about the poppy seed thing and about Listerine, Phil is right you learn something every day.
 

cheri1122

Veteran Expediter
Driver
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

What I'd heard about poppyseeds was that it took a LOT to test positive, but Snopes debunked that. Judging by the lawsuits filed, and won, by people who failed the test, any carrier that doesn't allow a second test, if the first didn't use the more sensitive standards, would be liable to regret it.
 

cheri1122

Veteran Expediter
Driver
RE: Eatting a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Like the bumpersticker says: "If you are what you eat, I'm fast, cheap and easy!"
:+ For me, that means grabbing a piece of fruit or a carton of yogurt on the way out the door :+
 

davebeckym

Expert Expediter
RE: Eating a poppy seed bagel will make you test

Just hope those cows haven't been fed drugs. Oh wait, they don't test us for steroids!
 
Top