Vintage Pyrex Teacup & Saucer with Pink Stripe & Gold Edge: 79,800 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe) + Cadmium
Made in USA: Pyrex cup & saucer:
79,800 ppm Lead (Pb) & 1,962 ppm Cadmium (Cd)
Most ceramics or glass items that are tinted pink or red have some level of cadmium in them. This is especially true for vintage or antique items. To learn more about the concern for Cadmium (Cd) toxicity, click HERE.
Please share and browse the photo library (click on the #XRFTesting link above) on this site to see items I have personally tested that have been both positive and negative for Lead.
To learn more about XRF testing and the potential implications of Lead in cookware, click HERE and HERE. Read more about Lead-in-Pyrex here.
Thank you for reading and sharing these results with your friends.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
For those new to this website:
Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the test results for each component tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
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How do we dispose of these items safely as to not redistribute them back into any thrift shops? I had been collecting vintage for years. But recently pinwheel without knowing about the leaded content until it came to me in an original box. I was keeping jewellery in the various containers. Is there any research on the emissions of lead onto objects or into the air we breath?
Hi Lucie – here is my post about that: https://tamararubin.com/2013/11/what-should-i-do-with-my-lead-contaminated-dishes-to-toss-or-not-to-toss/
Thanks for commenting. Hopefully that helps!
Tamara