Wedgwood china Hedge Rose bowl (made in England). When tested with an XRF instrument this bowl had the following readings:
- Lead: Greater than 100,000 ppm
- Arsenic: 19,114 ppm
Under no circumstances would I consider this bowl safe for food use. This level of Lead is consistent with my findings for all vintage china from this brand, a brand which I recommend avoiding as a result.
To see more Wedgwood pieces I have tested, click here.
To see more plain white china pieces I have tested, click here.
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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
Hi, so grateful to run into your blog Tamara. I have a question. We have some wedgwood hedge rose dishes from 1965 in our pantry that we occasionally (the wife, kids and I) eat off of (but only like once or twice amonth when we run lout fo clean dishes). Obviously I am now throwing them away. My question is this, on occasions we washed them with our normal plates (i.e. Ikea dinnerware). So last night I washed one of the hedgrose plates with our much new ones (Ikea dinnerware, forks, spoons etc).. Is there risk of contamination, in other words should I re-wash the plates that were in the dishwasher with the wedgewoodone? Would that suffice? Do I need to somehow decontaminate the cabinet we kept the plates in (we had about three or four of them).
In addition I have half a dozen small cups and a few small plates that have this on the back and im curious if you now anything about this set:
“romantic england warwickshire 16th century ann hathaways cottage english ronstone J and G meakin england”
Thank you so much (and I live in Tigard, just around the corner).
Allan