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Can Diet Pills With Ephridine Test Positive In Drug Test?

I had recently had a drug test at my workplace and it came back positive for ampetimines (not sure of the spelling) and I have not taken anything except diet pills with ephridine which I have for a few years is there anyway this could trigger a false positive?
Tue, 6 Sep 2016
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Gosh yes. Or perhaps a true positive. There are cases in which the herbal product has illegal drugs in it and also the closely related drugs to amphetamine--pseudophed, ephedra, etc usually cross react and show up as false positives.
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Can Diet Pills With Ephridine Test Positive In Drug Test?

Gosh yes. Or perhaps a true positive. There are cases in which the herbal product has illegal drugs in it and also the closely related drugs to amphetamine--pseudophed, ephedra, etc usually cross react and show up as false positives.