2018 Dollar Store “Happy Birthday” Wine Glass by Cristar: Lead-Free!
2018 Dollar Tree “Happy Birthday” Wine Glass by Cristar
Made in Columbia
For exact XRF test results, scroll down.
To learn more about XRF testing, click HERE.
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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 was really surprised that this was 100% Lead-free! It was also negative for all of the other “baddies”: Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, Antimony, and more.
I truly expected to at least find Lead (and possibly Cadmium) in the painted markings on this glass! What a terrific discovery. And for only $1!!! I haven’t had wine glasses in 1,000,000 years (it seems, but truly it has been 23 years since I had a set of wine glasses that wasn’t broken within the first week or two of use because the kids always use them), so now I have a set of four new Lead-free Dollar Tree wine glasses for my birthday (each with a different design)!
People often express concern for products from the Dollar (type) stores (such as Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, Dollar General, or a 99cent Store) and usually I explain to them that BECAUSE they were cited for significant Lead-violations years ago, in my experience, their stuff has become much safer (at least from a Lead perspective). Time will tell (and by that I mean like the next week or so because tonight I spent $46 at the Dollar store on potentially “suspect” items to test for you all, and there are a few examples in there that I just cannot imagine will be both Lead-free and Cadmium-free).
To see more items from the Dollar Tree that I have tested already, click HERE.
For this particular Happy Birthday wine glass, several colors were tested and all had similar test results to the three sets of results listed below (when tested with an XRF instrument):
All tests were completed for at least 30 seconds.
Test set one:
- Lead (Pb): Negative / Non-Detect
- Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-Detect
- Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-Detect
- Mercury (Hg): Negative / Non-Detect
- Antimony (Sb): Negative / Non-Detect
- Selenium (Se): Negative / Non-Detect
- Barium (Ba): 1,104 +/- 265 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 151 +/- 64 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 3,538 +/- 516 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 7,062 +/- 797 ppm
To see more wine glasses I have tested, click HERE.
Test set two:
- Lead (Pb): Negative / Non-Detect
- Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-Detect
- Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-Detect
- Mercury (Hg): Negative / Non-Detect
- Antimony (Sb): Negative / Non-Detect
- Selenium (Se): Negative / Non-Detect
- Barium (Ba): 941 +/- 289 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 351 +/- 173 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 274 +/- 75 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 3,107 +/- 538 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 6,223 +/- 831 ppm
Test set three:
- Lead (Pb): Negative / Non-Detect
- Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-Detect
- Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-Detect
- Mercury (Hg): Negative / Non-Detect
- Antimony (Sb): Negative / Non-Detect
- Selenium (Se): Negative / Non-Detect
- Barium (Ba): 1,256 +/- 257 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 65 +/- 30 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 143 +/- 61 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 3,750 +/- 505 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 6,815 +/- 769 ppm
As always, please let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you for reading and for sharing this work!
If you want to donate and help with this kind of testing (where Lead Safe Mama buys stuff new at a store to test), you can “Chip-in” (via PayPal or with a credit card) by clicking HERE, or you can contribute on GoFundME (LINK). As an example, this Dollar Tree trip cost about $60, including the stuff and the transportation, not including the cost of testing and childcare.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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