Factually inaccurate: The list of ingredients in energy drinks is available on the product’s label. Energy drinks don’t contain illicit drugs.
Incorrect: Oral drug tests are intended for human saliva samples, not food or beverage. Using drug tests on energy drinks is a misuse of the tests that can result in false positives and makes the results invalid.
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Home drug tests are a simple and rapid method for detecting the presence of drugs of abuse in a variety of human samples, including saliva, urine, and blood. However, these tests only provide preliminary results and need confirmation from a laboratory test. Furthermore, to be reliable, the tests should be carried out correctly according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Using samples that the test wasn’t designed to analyze, such as food and beverages, is a misuse of the test and results produced from such tests are invalid.
FULL CLAIM: “Red Bull's got a positive on buprenorphine, which is a toxin, and cocaine. So that's what we're putting in our bodies when we drink Red Bull”
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