Can eating a poppy seed bagel cause you to fail a drug test?
July 9th, 2007
Yes, ingestion of poppy seed bagels or poppyseed cake can indeed cause a false positive on a urine test for opiates. Ingestion of poppy seeds can result in a positive drug test as long as two days after ingestion. According to the myth-busting website snopes, “as little as a single bagel covered with poppy seeds could produce a false positive test for these drugs“.
Source: www.poppies.org/faq/
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