2018 Dollar Tree Green Glazed Ceramic Plate, Royal Norfolk.
By Greenbrier International, Inc.
Made in China.
For exact XRF test results please scroll down.
To learn more about XRF testing, Click HERE.
People often express concern for products from the Dollar (type) stores [Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, Dollar General, 99cent Store] and 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 (if only from a Lead perspective.)
To see more items from Dollar Tree Stores that I have tested already, Click HERE.
Below are the full XRF test results. Both tests were done for at least 60 seconds.
Food Surface of Plate (first image above):
3-minute reading (180 seconds)
- Lead (Pb): 31 +/- 12 ppm
- 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): 1,300 +/- 67 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 142 +/- 22 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 461 +/- 47 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,291 +/- 154 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 54 +/- 13 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 2,842 +/- 101 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 4,508 +/- 164 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 16,000 +/- 300 ppm
- Magnesium (Mn): Negative / Non-Detect
- Cobalt (Co): 239 +/- 71 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 242 +/- 43
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): 1,328 +/- 106 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 27,300 +/- 900
- Zinc (Zn): 288 +/- 48 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 288 +/- 82 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 6,086 +/- 352 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 27,500 +/- 1,100 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 79 +/- 22 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 1,858 +/- 129 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 3,252 +/- 207 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 13,800 +/- 500 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 16,000 +/- 700 ppm
- Magnesium (Mn): Negative / Non-Detect
- Platinum (Pt): 137 +/- 63 ppm
As always, please let me know if you have any questions!
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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama 
Thank you for doing this testing!!! Can you explain what these numbers mean? In your post, you say it’s “lead safe”, but then there was 31 and -#ppb. Plus the barium in it? It would be helpful to have the standards or something about what these numbers mean, so one can decide if it’s safe enough for them.