This Bunnykins vintage (1970s?) ceramic dish set
tested positive with an XRF for 73,800 parts per million Lead.
Learn more about XRF instruments and XRF testing here, and here.
If this were sold today (with this level of Lead), it would be considered highly illegal because it is a dishware set sold specifically for use by young children and it is positive for more than 90 ppm Lead in the glaze/coating.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for reading and for sharing these results!
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).
I have these and my little one has been using them! Thank you so much for your post and your work. Going to replace this right away.
We have this set, purchased in England when we were living there in the late ’70s. Thankfully, I only used it once to feed our son. Whenever I have looked at it, I would wish I had used it more, but now I am very grateful that I didn’t. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.