Seeds Assessment

“Susan Horton had been a stay-at-home mom for almost 20 years, and now—pregnant with her fifth child—she felt a hard-won confidence in herself as a mother. Then she ate a salad from Costco.” Crazy story from Reveal and The Marshall Project: She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away. “Horton didn’t realize that she would be drug tested before her child’s birth. Or that the poppy seeds in her salad could trigger a positive result on a urine drug screen, the quick test that hospitals often use to check pregnant patients for illicit drugs. Many common foods and medications—from antacids to blood pressure and cold medicines—can prompt erroneous results.”