{"id":137460,"date":"2023-02-22T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137460"},"modified":"2023-02-22T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:21:18","slug":"pentagon-tells-military-members-to-stop-eating-poppy-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=137460","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Tells Military Members to Stop Eating Poppy Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/muffin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-137462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/muffin-375x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/muffin-375x333.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/muffin-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/muffin.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/331909\/pentagon-to-military-members-stop-eating-poppy-seeds.html?utm_source=part&amp;utm_medium=earthlink&amp;utm_campaign=rss_top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pentagon to Military Members: Stop Eating Poppy Seeds<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>They could cause a failed drug test, memo warns<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff<br \/>\nPosted Feb 22, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seinfeld: Poppy Seeds (Clip) | TBS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYzuQr7YVYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T00:49:39-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYzuQr7YVYg?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mYzuQr7YVYg\" data-author_name=\"TBS\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TBS\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/mYzuQr7YVYg\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Seinfeld: Poppy Seeds (Clip) | TBS\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a lesson that Elaine learned the hard way\u2014and one that&#8217;s not purely the stuff of TV lore. In a Feb. 17 memo, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert Cisneros warned service members of the potential perils posed by poppy seeds as they relate to drug testing. &#8220;Poppy seeds are naturally sourced from the poppy plant,&#8221; the Department of Defense memo reads, and &#8220;may be contaminated during harvest with morphine and codeine,&#8221; both drugs in the opioid family. The Hill cites the US Anti-Doping Agency, which clarifies that the seeds can absorb opium extract during harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Per the memo, &#8220;recent data suggests certain poppy seed varieties may have higher codeine contamination than previously reported.&#8221; As such, eating them could result in a codeine-positive urinalysis result and present as a failed drug test. The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon learned of the issue last year and had a lab analyze the codeine and morphine levels in various poppy seed brands. Cisneros&#8217; advice to service members, who are required to undergo random urinalysis testing: Cease all consumption of poppy seeds in food products, including baked goods. (A poppy seed bagel led to a traumatizing ordeal for one mom.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since this was documented in a memo, can they throw a servicemember out for eating a muffin?\u00a0 \u00a0Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon to Military Members: Stop Eating Poppy Seeds They could cause a failed drug test, memo &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon Tells Military Members to Stop Eating Poppy Seeds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=137460\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon Tells Military Members to Stop Eating Poppy Seeds<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":137462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137464,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137460\/revisions\/137464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}