Clear glass water bottle, Voss brand. The bottle and lid were negative for lead, mercury and arsenic – but the white writing on the outside was positive for trace (low levels) of cadmium, at 11 ppm. (+/- 6 ppm).
If you have scrolled through the posts on my blog at all you have seen that the writing on glass is often positive for either lead or cadmium when tested with an XRF instrument (regardless of the age of the item.) This cadmium is likely just in the white writing and does not touch the water contained in the bottle at all. That said, cadmium is a known carcinogen and the company could choose to use paint for their logo that is both lead and cadmium free and they should be encouraged to do so. Note: This test result is only for the clear bottle with the white writing, I have seen this company has different bottles with different colors of writing and I have not yet tested these other colors. This bottle was tested in 2017.
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Tamara Rubin
Mother of Lead Poisoned Children
Trained and Certified in using an XRF instrument
Has any newer bottles of VOSS been tested? I just bought a cpl. Is it dangerous with it being on the outside and being used once? Also it says it’s recyclable but how if it’s come into contact with a heavy metal?
I drink out of these daily, I have 2. One I bought a bit ago and one more recently. I noticed the one I bought more recently had a sticker for all the writing instead of the white writing on the actual bottle. So once I took the sticker off, there’s no writing on it, just the plain bottle. I wonder if this partly the reason (other than initially thinking it was because of cost reasons). This was in Australia.
I peeled the plastic tape like covering off each bottle as the logo is printed on the tape, not the glass. I refill the bottles with my own high end water filtered tap water.