HappySqurriel on 01 November 2010
| MrBubbles said: im pretty sure its a rather large quantities of poppy seeds actually required to do that. the bagel would need have been mostly poppy seeds. |
Not necessarily, it all depends on the level of the drug that they're testing for ...
If you're testing based on the assumption that someone used a drug recently (within 48 hours) the level of the drug in the blood would require a lot of poppy seeds to be eaten; if you're testing for a level where people had used drugs in the past few weeks a single bagel might produce a false positive; and if you're simply looking for the presence of a chemical tracer a very small quantity of poppy seeds (shared a bagel with friend) might lead to a false positive.
