Vintage Bauer Los Angeles Yellow Ceramic Saucer: 174,800 ppm Lead. 90 ppm is unsafe for kids.

When tested with an XRF instrument this yellow vintage Bauer, Los Angeles saucer was positive for 174,800 parts per million lead. [Sorry about the fuzzy photo!] That’s more than 17% Lead in the glaze!

This dish tested negative with Lead Check swab (which are designed to test for lead on painted surfaces – not pottery), but why take the risk? The only way to know is Lead is leaching from your dishes is to send it to a lab and the cost of sending one single dish to a lab is similar to what you could spend on buying a whole new set of Lead-free dishes. It’s better to have lead-free dishes and not worry!

To check out more of the Bauer, Los Angeles pieces I have tested, click here.

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Please note:  I am not saying “this particular plate will poison the people using it”!  I am saying that there is no defensible reason for one of the most potent neurotoxins known to man to be in our kitchenware (especially at levels this high!) Period.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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