Poppy seed bagels and muffins could cause U.S. service members to fail a drug test, the Pentagon warned in a memo last week. Gilbert Cisneros, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and ...

In a memo published Tuesday, the Pentagon told military personnel to stop eating poppy seeds. Consuming poppy seeds could result in a codeine positive drug test, the memo warned. Some poppy seed ...

"Concerns with poppy seeds and drug testing are not new," Under Secretary of Defense Gilbert R. Cisneros, Jr., said in a Department of Defense memo Melissa Montoya is an associate editor at PEOPLE.

WASHINGTON — Lemon poppy seed muffins and everything bagels are off the table for military members, at least for the near future. All service members should avoid poppy seeds or risk a false positive ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in ...

Poisonous poppy seeds have sent a number of people around Australia to hospital with severe symptoms—from muscle cramping and spasms to seizures and cardiac arrests—prompting a nationwide recall of ...