Can you eat a poppy seed bagel before a urine drug test?

They could in the past, but the sensitivity level has been adjusted to prevent this from happening. And the number that you would have to eat to get a positive result currently is more than you could eat in a few days!

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Actually it depends on who is doing the testing. Standard over the counter tests wont pick up on it but the labs that probation offices and other court ordered urinalysis tests go to will read it, and it doesnt take much! I am currently in drug court and a fellow client there just had a false positive from eating two poppy seed bagels the day before. They told our group that it came back positive for methadone, however there is a difference in the chemical make up and the tests they did concluded it was poppy seeds from food before they even asked him. I know every one says you need to eat an obscene amount of poppy seeds to get a false positive but they have adapted their tests to be very sensitive to anything that could even remotely be drugs in your system I am also on drug court and was placed in jail for two days because i ate JUST ONE poppy seed bagel. It does not take much to fail