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Just last March, shoppers in France were warned against purchasing bread that contained a dose of opium. Health officials were puzzled about the unexplained presence of the drugs in poppy seed baguettes and ready-made sandwiches made from poppy seed bread.

Poppy seeds don’t usually contain opiates and government investigators posit that a batch of seeds delivered to bakeries may have been contaminated from the latex sap of the plant that has alkaloids.

The investigators have yet to determine exactly how much of the popular sandwich bread was contaminated. One sandwich made from poppy seed bread could contain at least four milligrams (mg) of morphine, a dose equal to almost half a tablet of morphine sulfate that’s administered to individuals diagnosed with cancer.

There is so much ignorance (or lying) in the above statements that the rest of the article isn't worth reading.

Bioavailability of oral morphine ~ 10%. Even if they found 4mg in a sandwich, the effective dose is equivalent to 0.4mg systemically available. An average person couldn't tell that dose apart from placebo.

Cancer patients on oral morphine are typically on 10 to 30mg every 2 to 4 hours plus a sustained release form (MS contin) 30 - 100mg every 12 to 8 hours.

The article is junk.