Vintage Pyrex Turquoise Butterprint Dish: 30,600 ppm lead.
c. 1957-1968.
The amount of lead that is considered unsafe for a modern / newly manufactured item intended for children is 90 parts per million (ppm) and higher. Vintage dishware is not regulated at all for total lead content.
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Did this one test lead-free? There are no test results shown. I have a set of these I use for actual cooking and storage of food.
Hi there – it’s the first line of the post – 30,600 ppm Lead.
Tamara
Argh. Ok, I see it now. I’m very bummed. I have been using these instead of plastic thinking it was a safer alternative. I don’t know what to use anymore. This really sucks.
Clear glass is always a good option – especially new clear glass!
Check out this link: https://tamararubin.com/2017/10/saferchoices-casserole-dishes-how-do-i-choose-a-lead-free-casserole-dish/
Tamara
How is this an issue when it’s on the outside of the container? I mean food isn’t really touching the design.
Hi Heidi,
Thank you for commenting.
The problem with the exterior paint is that it wears off on to your hands and in to your cooking environment, which is why it is potentially an issue. These dishes (casserole dishes, measuring cups) are also often nested when stored in your cabinets, so the outside paint from one can wear off into the inside of another. If you hold yours up to the light with the light shining into the center of the dish you can see through the sides a bit and get a sense of how much Lead paint has worn off. It just takes a microscopic amount of Lead to poison a human – literally an invisible amount.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions!
Tamara
Hi!
I’m new to your site
I was wondering if you’ve tested old restaurant dish safe, ie Buffalo China etc.?
I’m glad I stumbled across your site. On a sad note, I will be permanently retiring one of my favorite glass bowls. On another note, I will have to break the news I learned elsewhere on this site, about Le Creuset. I am not sad because I actually detest the set because it’s heavy and cumbersome. My husband, however, will be mortified since he bought a ton of it.
Hi Constancia,
The good news is that Le Creuset is offering toxicant free replacements for readers of my site. It’s not an explicit agreement, but my readers have reported getting free non-toxic (modern/new) replacement items 6 or 7 times now (in emails to me). So it’s definitely worth asking them (you don’t even need to mention me, just let them know you recently learned their products contain toxic heavy metals and you want some options free of heavy metals and could they replace yours with newer non-toxic ones… NOTE: these will likely be in “boring” colors!)
Tamara
Hello, Do you have any lead information on the My Garden pattern by Correlle?
Hi Joanne,
I have not tested that design. If it is pre-2005 it is likely positive for high levels of Lead and /or Cadmium (and possibly even Arsenic.) Here’s how to send in a dish for testing:
https://tamararubin.com/2019/08/tamara-can-i-send-you-one-of-my-dishes-to-test-for-lead/
This post also has some context to help you evaluate your dishes even if I have not yet tested them:
https://tamararubin.com/2022/05/why-i-do-the-consumer-goods-testing-i-do-why-you-cannot-do-this-at-home/
This article discusses the overall concern:
https://tamararubin.com/topics/does-vintage-and-new-functional-pottery-and-dishware-have-unsafe-levels-of-lead/
Thank you for commenting.
Tamara
Hi Tamara,
I did some research and my pattern was made from 1999-2005. Based on what you and the Company indicates, I will stop using these dishes.
Corelle pre-2005 dishes are the Corelle dinnerware sets that contain lead, vintage Corelle dishes normally have decorations on them. The Corelle Company now advises people to stop using vintage Corelle for mealtime and instead use them strictly for decorative purposes.
I would never have contacted you without seeing a FB Post from a friend. Thanks for your information!
Thank you for commenting.
I can’t find info on the blue cornflower corningware. Have you tested that?
Hi – Just put “blue cornflower” in the search bar and examples will pop up.
Here’s how to search the site (handy video!):
https://tamararubin.com/2022/05/how-to-use-the-lead-safe-mama-website-video/
Tamara
hello there! i’m Ivana from Argentina. I bought 2 pyrex casseroles some time ago. They are all white with glass lid, it says that they are made of borosilicate glass and in France. Do they have lead as well? thank you.