Friday, December 16, 2005

It's the Cheese!

Eating cheese may cause you to test positive on a drug test.

AN INTERNATIONALLY recognised test for cocaine is flawed - and can throw up positive results from powdered milk and parmesan cheese, say scientists. Laboratory research shows that the "Scott test" can fail to detect the drug in some samples and can wrongly identify it in some substances where no cocaine is present.

Police agencies have been using this test as a preliminary test, and anyone who tests positive may be a guest of the county jail until the results of a mass-spectrography test come back.

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