A woman who temporarily lost custody of her newborn baby because she failed a hospital-mandated drug test after eating a poppy seed bagel won a huge settlement from Pennsylvania child welfare services and her hospital on Tuesday.
Just before going into labor in April 2010, Elizabeth Mort ate a poppy seed bagel. Poppy seed bagels can trigger a false positive in drug tests with low thresholds for opiate detection, which is why federal standards set the minimum detection rate at 2,000 nanograms per milliliter. Unfortunately for Mort, Jameson Hospital’s drug test, which they gave to Mort either shortly before or after her daughter’s birth, uses a minimum of 300 nanograms.
Mort failed the drug test, testing positive for opiates/bagels, but, for reasons that aren’t clear, the hospital didn’t notify her. Instead, officials from the hospital went straight to child welfare services in Pennsylvania.
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