Stop Eating Poppy Seeds or You Might Fail a Drug Test, Pentagon Warns | Military.com
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The poppy plant can produce opium and be refined into codeine, heroin and morphine. Typically, the seeds do not contain those substances naturally but can become contaminated during processing, leaving trace amounts of the powerful drugs, which are restricted under federal law and military rules.
“Recent data suggests certain poppy seeds varieties may have higher #codeine contamination than previously reported,” Cisneros wrote in the memo. “Consumption of poppy seed products could cause a codeine-positive urinalysis result and undermine the department’s ability to identify illicit drug use.”