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[Mike Rochip]

I thought this was an interesting site:

Livescience.com

IMO, I thought this was the most surprising true one:

Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
Purveyors of this urban legend call on a popular Seinfeld episode for support. It turns out there's truth behind the comedy: tests suggest ingesting just two poppy seed bagels may produce a positive result for opiates on a drug screen.

[zaphirer]

Mike Rochip, on Jan 14 2006, 06:30 PM, said:

Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
Purveyors of this urban legend call on a popular Seinfeld episode for support. It turns out there's truth behind the comedy: tests suggest ingesting just two poppy seed bagels may produce a positive result for opiates on a drug screen.

I think they did that on mythbusters and said it was 'plausible, but unlikely'... or maybe it was true...

[Glenn]

zaphirer, on Jan 16 2006, 03:47 PM, said:

I think they did that on mythbusters and said it was 'plausible, but unlikely'... or maybe it was true...

I saw that episode ... they were testing positive for hours after eating the bagels.

[lokoike]

Just bookmarked that site; they've got some interesting articles.

I liked the glowing pig one.

[Mike Rochip]

lokoike, on Jan 16 2006, 03:21 PM, said:

Just bookmarked that site; they've got some interesting articles.

I liked the glowing pig one.

An article about man-made blinking bacteria and other interesting and/or scary stuff was on the NY Times website today.

NY Times

[Greenknight]

Mike Rochip, on Jan 14 2006, 06:30 PM, said:

Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use
Purveyors of this urban legend call on a popular Seinfeld episode for support. It turns out there's truth behind the comedy: tests suggest ingesting just two poppy seed bagels may produce a positive result for opiates on a drug screen.

What's sad about this is that many of those who use urinalysis to screen employees refuse to believe it. I told one guy about all the things that could produce false positives, he denied them all. (I wasn't applying for a job, this was in the local Eagles lounge). He absolutely insisted that those tests are reliable, wouldn't even listen.

[zaphirer]

Greenknight, on Jan 17 2006, 05:49 AM, said:

What's sad about this is that many of those who use urinalysis to screen employees refuse to believe it. I told one guy about all the things that could produce false positives, he denied them all. (I wasn't applying for a job, this was in the local Eagles lounge). He absolutely insisted that those tests are reliable, wouldn't even listen.

Nothing is completely reliable, and especially not that stupid polygraph (a.k.a. lie detector) machine.

[kobrakommander56]

that was a really good seinfeld episode when elaine wanted to go to africa, and she faked the urine test, and then her boss wouldn't let her go cause "she" had menopause.