#LeadFree Sink Handle (for a bathroom or kitchen sink?)! This one is essentially 100% nickel! Nickel or stainless steel are good #SaferChoices for something like this.
Note: if you have yellow brass handles for your sink there is a chance they can be high lead, and there’s even a chance that they can have lead that could be rubbing off on to the user’s hand. If you have concerns (as a first pass test on your own kitchen or bath hardware IF it is yellow brass) you may want to use a LeadCheck swab to help determine is any lead is coming off the surface in daily use.
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What do you recommend for a truly lead free kitchen faucet for water safety? Kraus says lead free brass with a stainless cover. But is it truly lead free or just under .25!
I have been looking in to this a lot. In Australia they still allow up to 4% in brass fittings. I am shocked. Villeroy and Boch make lead free stuff. Also Caroma Titan is apparently lead free. I would be happy with .25. One company here was advertising theirs as being 1.5!
Thank you for mentioning Kraus. I’m looking for a brass coloured kichen faucet and want to make sure it’s safe, so was I excited to find out that lead-free brass coloured faucets exist. However, is 0.25 % (or 250ppm if I understand correctly), safe?
Tamara, could you please let us know your thoughts on the “lead-free” standard of 0.25%? I know stainless steel would be a better choice, but for someone who is not lead poisoned, but does want to stay that way, would using a faucet and drawer pulls that are called lead-free but contain up to 0.25% lead ok in your opinion? Thanks!
I would love to hear TamaraRubin’s opinion on this too. I have been without a sink in one of my bathrooms for several years because I have been in search of a truly no lead sink and a yellow colored faucet. I finally bought a .25 faucet, but now I am concerned about it too.
Since my last comment, I ended up deciding that I didn’t want to accept 0.25 % lead in my faucet and was also really set on finding a brass coloured faucet. I was happy to find a few brands that make stainless steel faucets that are coated in various lead-free coatings that are yellow in colour. The colours are not as nice as real brass, but that’s the compromise I decided to make. A few brands I found after much research were Zomodo, Stylish (available on their website and HomeDepot). I even found a few no name brands on Wayfair and Amazon but they had some parts made of brass (neither the water nor hands would touch them, but I didn’t trust them).
Thanks for the info. right after I added my comment I went to leadsafemama.com again and
I searched water testing. There was a lot of info in that article about contamination from faucets, and some info about faucets too.
After reading it I saw LSM would definitely give a pass to a .25 % of lead. IT WAS A HUGE AMOUNT!