Positive drug test - poppy seeds!!! beware!!

DCFC79

summerlady wrote: »

Many driving jobs where passengers are involved - coach, bus, train, plane. I think some other roles where operation of heavy plant is involved.


The employers have a duty of care towards passengers and other workers - as do the workers themselves.


Being under the influence of drugs can significantly impair performance - reaction times and judgement.

You can add staff working in a distribution depot to that list, using the electric fork lift trucks when high on drugs is a lethal concoction.

GlasweJen

I don't get this, surely if you tested positive in urine your employer would be requesting more accurate samples like blood or hair?

Cosm0

It is a very complicated test and I personally do not believe that they people did not know about poppy seeds. Especially when they employing for an alcohol distribution warehouse job on a weekly (might be monthly) basis and doing this test on weekly (monthly) basis.
I heard stories on net that an entire platoon in army have failed drug test because on breakfast they had poppy seed bread. And of course, after research they have been reinstated.

nimbo

Co codmol would test positive.
I don't think that the urine testing kits we use at work would pick up the metabolites of poppy seeds - I've never head that excuse.

And I've been given lucozade in a pee pot.

- me you wee looks a very dark orange and appears to be lightly fizzing. Oh look a lucozade bottle in the toilet bin!

- client - oh urrrrm. Have you got another pot?

- me yes. Do we need to bother though? What have you used?

Andy_L

KellyKoo wrote: »

I so want some Poppy Seed toast now.

Ok, so I do toast a bit...I can handle it...I can control it

xapprenticex

did you smoke or snort the seeds op?

agrinnall

deannahupp369 wrote: »

Its helps to me knowing about the Poppy Seeds.I think now a days you will stop eating poppy seeds because it is not good for your health. When you are going to interview for a new job.

Thanks for that contribution Deanna. I'd also suggest that you lay off the :spam:.

Sparhawke

Any doctor worth his/her salt would know to ask about poppy seeds and suchlike with respect to false positives...

agrinnall

WilliamsJohn wrote: »

Poppy seeds on that bagel you love can cause a urine drug test to come back positive for opioids. Poppy seeds are also used as a flavorful ingredient in many popular foods,

Did you also know that employers are now also testing for :spam:, and you've failed?

kaya

so for next time, just say you had toothache and brought some over the counter co-codamol from boots