Pentagon warns troops to stay away from poppy seed bagels because of the possibility of a failed drug test

“The Military Departments are hereby directed to notify service members to avoid consumption of all poppy seeds to include food products and baked goods containing poppy seeds,” a Pentagon official says. (AP)

Back away from the baked goods, Doughboy.

That’s the warning from the Pentagon to its 1.3 million active-duty members of the military amid new concerns that poppy seeds from bagels or muffins could prompt a failed drug test.