2018 Dollar Store Red & White Snow Flake Metal Tray/ Plate: Lead-Free!

 

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2018 Dollar Tree Snowflake Design Red & White Metal Tray
By Greenbrier International, Inc.
Made in China

For exact XRF test results, scroll down.

To learn more about XRF testing, click HERE.

I was actually not at all surprised that this was 100% Lead-free. Most new tins (and items made of the same material as cookie tins, as these plates are) that I have tested have been either negative for Lead or positive for Lead at very trace/ low levels (levels considered safe by all standards). This tray was also negative for all of the other “baddies” — like Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, Antimony, and more.

People often express concern for products from the Dollar (and similar type) stores (like Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, Dollar General, and 99cent Stores). Usually, I explain to them that BECAUSE these types of stores were cited for several significant Lead-violations years ago, in my experience, the products they sell have become much safer in recent years (at least from a Lead perspective — I don’t address plastics and plasticizers in my work).

Time will tell (and by that I mean like the next week or so because last night 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).

This is also yet another example to (hopefully) help dispel the myth that “Made in China” combined with “inexpensive” must always mean that something is likely positive for high levels of Lead. In my experience, this is simply not true.

To see more items from Dollar Tree (type stores) that we have tested already, click HERE.

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For this particular snow flake patterned red and white Christmas tray, the tested areas included all colors. Each test had similar test results to the two sets of test results listed below (when tested with an XRF instrument):

All tests were completed for at least 60 seconds.

Red and White Decorated Food Surface Side:

• 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
• Chromium (Cr): 603 +/- 104 ppm
• Barium (Ba): Negative / Non-Detect
• Iron (Fe): 915,900 +/- 1,700 ppm
• Vanadium (V): Negative / Non-Detect
• Titanium (Ti): 76,700 +/- 1,000 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 4,434 +/- 1,340 ppm
• Magnesium (Mn): 1,443 +/- 463 ppm

To see more metalware pieces we have tested, click HERE.

Back of Tray:

• 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): Negative / Non-Detect
• Chromium (Cr): 675 +/- 101 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 996,300 +/- 1,600 ppm
• Magnesium (Mn): 1,689 +/- 468 ppm
• Vanadium (V): Negative / Non-Detect
• Titanium (Ti): Negative / Non-Detect

As always, please let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you for reading and for sharing these results. (When you share our articles, Lead Safe Mama, LLC earns $$$ to keep doing the independent consumer goods testing we do!)

If you would like to donate and help with this kind of testing (where we buy 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 store trip cost about $60, including the stuff and the transportation but not including the cost of testing and childcare.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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For those new to the Lead Safe Mama 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).

• Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
• Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
• Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
• All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
• Items that Lead Safe Mama, LLC reports on are tested multiple times to confirm the results published (for each component tested).
• Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition) and The Guardian in November 2023.

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