Below are the XRF test results for the Pioneer Woman
“Willow” Pattern (Blue) Dipping Bowl pictured here.
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).
Exterior Flowers
(based on a one-minute reading):
- Lead (Pb): 1,858 +/- 76 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 230 +/- 17 ppm
- Mercury (Hg): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Arsenic (As): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Barium (Ba): 385 +/- 66 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 9,900 +/- 345 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Selenium (Se): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Tin (Sn): 47 +/- 19 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 18,200 +/- 600 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 320 +/- 56 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 288 +/- 81 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 3,145 +/- 271 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 63 +/- 25 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 814 +/- 74 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 1,144 +/- 105 ppm
- Indium (In): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Zirconium (Zr): 7,938 +/- 240 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 727 +/- 128 ppm
- Magnesium (Mn): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
To read more about Cadmium toxicity concerns, click Here.
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Inside on the Light Blue of Bowl (image above)
(based on a one-minute reading):
- Lead (Pb): 622 +/- 40 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Mercury (Hg): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Arsenic (As): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Barium (Ba): 1,029 +/- 81 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Antimony (Sb): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Selenium (Se): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Tin (Sn): 54 +/- 20 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 4,756 +/- 199 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 213 +/- 51 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): Negative /Non-Detect (nd)
- Iron (Fe): 831 +/- 182 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 72 +/- 21 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 1,787 +/- 109 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 3,571 +/- 202 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 11,100 +/- 300 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 762 +/-126 ppm
Black and White Logo on Bottom
Please see the following posts for other, similar bowls like this for the bottom reading (of the black and white logo), as their bottom readings are just about the same as this one. To see the readings for this dipping bowl in other colors/ other patterns (plus the readings for the black and white logo), click HERE.
The amount of Lead considered toxic in an item manufactured and intended for children’s use is anything 90 ppm Lead (or higher) in the glaze, paint, or coating. While these items are not marketed for use by children, with their bright colors and diminutive size, one could easily see that a parent might give them to their child to play with.
Given these are newly manufactured and likely leach-tested, I do not have an immediate Lead-poisoning concern with a dish like this. I do, however, have concerns for the impact of these levels of toxicants with potential long-term use and heavy wear. I also have concerns about these toxicants (Lead and Cadmium) being used as glaze ingredients at all. Click HERE to read more about these concerns.
Thank you so much for reading and for sharing this work.
Please let me know if you have ANY questions.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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Krista says
I just happened on your site and recently purchased one of these bowls, not the Willow one tested, because my little girl picked it out. If vintage items are toxic and new items too, how can we find items that are not?