I bought this for my son Charlie at the beginning of the school year. He’s a Wonder Woman fan, loves the color pink and is always drawing with colored pencils (so is in constant need of things like pencil boxes!)
Because this is a new item manufactured for use by children (and sold by a major retailer) as expected it does not have any elements that are generally considered toxic (or I wouldn’t let my kiddo use it!) However it is fun to see what is in it (exactly), especially from an educational perspective.
Here’s a link to this exact item on Amazon*: LINK
If you want you can use this to play a game with your kiddos… ask them what elements THEY think it contains and see how close they are to guessing correctly!
When tested with an XRF instrument this piece had the following readings:
- Lead (Pb): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Mercury (Hg): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Barium (Ba): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Chromium (Cr): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Antimony (Sb): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Selenium (Se): Negative / Non-Detect (ND)
- Tin (Sn): 5,156 +/- 151 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 428 +/- 199 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 909,400 +/- 2,500 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 76,500 +/- 2,100 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 4,645 +/- 1,360 ppm
- Magnesium (Mn): 2,024 +/- 495 ppm
To learn more about XRF Testing, Click Here.
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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
*Amazon links are affiliate links. If you purchase something after clicking on one of my Amazon affiliate links I may receive a small percentage of what you spend at no extra cost to you (usually about 6%!). Thank you for supporting my advocacy work in this way.
This is the only tin that I see on your site. Are they not of concern? My daughter was gifted a Disney tin with chalk inside and I eye it suspiciously (first for the chalk and then for the tin itself).
I mean the only new tin