2018 Dollar Tree Royal Norfolk Blue Glazed Ceramic Plate With Ridges: Lead-Free!

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2018 Dollar Tree Blue Glazed Ceramic Plate, Royal Norfolk
By Greenbrier International, Inc.
Made in China

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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).

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Please scroll down for exact XRF test results.

To learn more about XRF testing, click HERE.

This piece was negative for: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, and Arsenic.

People often express concern for products from the Dollar (type) stores (like Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, Dollar General, 99cent Store) and I usually explain 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 (if only from a Lead perspective).

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

Below are the full XRF test results. Both tests were conducted for at least 60 seconds.

Food Surface of Plate (first image above):
3-minute reading (180 seconds)

• 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): Negative / Non-Detect
• Barium (Ba): 850 +/- 61 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 19,800 +/- 400 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 500 +/- 46 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,121 +/- 133 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 1,066 +/- 56 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 724 +/- 55 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 22,000 +/- 500 ppm
• Magnesium (Mn): Negative / Non-Detect
• Cobalt (Co): 327 +/- 69 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 224 +/- 76

Black Logo Area on Back of Plate (image above):

• 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): 860 +/- 100 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 39,700 +/- 1,700
• Zinc (Zn): 16,400 +/- 600 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 353 +/- 85 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 5,044 +/- 310 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 20,600 +/- 900 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 19,300 +/- 700 ppm
• Vanadium (V): Negative / Non-Detect
• Titanium (Ti): Negative / Non-Detect
• Cobalt (Co): 11,900 +/- 600 ppm
• Magnesium (Mn): Negative / Non-Detect
• Platinum (Pt): 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 and posts, Lead Safe Mama, LLC earns $$$ to help cover the costs the independent consumer goods testing we do!)

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 our 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