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(CNN) - The U.S. military is telling active-duty soldiers to stop eating poppy seed bagels, pastries and other foods with poppy seeds.The top Pentagon official for personnel sent a memo warning service members that eating poppy seeds could cause them to fail drug tests

The Claim: Eating Poppy Seeds Can Make You Fail a Drug Test"> January 11, 2005REALLY?The Claim: Eating Poppy Seeds Can Make You Fail a Drug Test By ANAHAD O'CONNOR HE FACTS Heroin, a highly addictive drug, and poppy seeds, a pleasant and widely used cooking ingredient, derive from the same source, the opium poppy. This has led to a widespread belief that eating poppy seeds before a drug test is not a great idea. But do poppy seeds really register in urine tests as opiates? Absolutely, experts say. Eating a couple of bagels heavily coated with poppy seeds can result...