Liberty Blue Staffordshire Ironstone Vintage Plate: 44,500 ppm lead.
The amount of lead that is considered toxic in a newly manufactured item intended for use by children is 90 ppm or higher. Vintage china is not regulated for total Lead content (as detectable with an XRF instrument.)
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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 cookware (especially at levels this high!) Period.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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