WASHINGTON — Poppy seeds may look like many other items you have in your spice rack, but some come with a dangerous risk. Some poppy seeds may contain high levels of opiates like morphine, which can ...
It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld. But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from unwashed ...
WASHINGTON – Back away from the baked goods, Doughboy. That's the warning from the Pentagon to its 1.3 million active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines amid fresh concerns that tainted poppy ...
WASHINGTON — Poppy seeds may look like many other items you have in your spice rack, but some come with a dangerous risk. Some poppy seeds may contain high levels of opiates like morphine, which can ...
Poppy seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” which hints that it might contain opiates – powerful compounds that depress the ...
Darren Roberts is the Medical Director of the NSW Poisons Information Centre and a clinical Toxicologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Jared Brown is a Senior Poisons Specialist in ...
The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine test for the opiate codeine. Addiction and ...