Poppy seeds - false positive!? Please help!

[l4pacl]

Hi, I was drug tested today and I ate a sandwich which had quite a bit of poppy seeds on the roll for lunch 4 hours prior to being tested. Is there any chance my test could show a false positive with some sort of opiate?? All help is appreciated. Thank you!

l4pacl Reviewed by l4pacl on 06-23-2008. Poppy seeds - false positive!? Please help! Hi, I was drug tested today and I ate a sandwich which had quite a bit of poppy seeds on the roll for lunch 4 hours prior to being tested. Is there any chance my test could show a false positive with some sort of opiate?? All help is appreciated. Thank you! Rating: 5

[Storm Crow]

Captain Jack's Restaurant out on Hwy 139 (great food, incidentally) had to pull their sinfully scrumptious poppy seed cake from the menu because a trucker tested positive! (Just run it through a search engine and you'll get LOTS of results - all saying "Sorry! You may test positive".

The up side is that there is a LOT of evidence on the web that proves that poppy seeds can give a false positive. You should have NO problem getting evidence when you plead your case. Stick with sesame seeds next time!

- Granny:hippy:

[l4pacl]

I have 4 felonies and a misdemeanor. You think they'll believe me when I say I ate a poppy seed roll or you think they'll call me a liar and say I'm a fiend who couldn't lay off the ope?

It's a GC/MS test I believe. I've read some conflicting things that say a GC/MS test can't differentiate from some sort of molecular pattern in opium/heroin vs a tasty poppy pastry, and I've also read some things that say it can.

Thanks for the response though, but does anyone know for sure if I'm fucked or not?