Longaberger Pottery Vitrified China Small Burgundy Plate: 56 ppm Lead + 101 ppm Cadmium
When tested with an XRF instrument this Burgundy colored small plate by Longaberger Pottery had the following levels:
- Lead (Pb): 56 +/- 21 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 101 +/- 16 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 931 +/- 103 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 6,271 +/- 271 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 76 +/- 29 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 210 +/- 59 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,132 +/- 236 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 76 +/- 21 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 1,086 +/- 79 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 2,225 +/- 148 ppm
- Indium (In): 60 +/- 19 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 10,900 +/- 400 ppm
The level of Lead found in this plate is considered safe by all standards. The level of Cadmium is low, and it is common to find Cadmium in many red glazed items. It is slightly above some of the safety standards – but there is no specific safety standard for total Cadmium content in dishware as detectable with an XRF instrument.
Metals not listed were not detected by the XRF instrument. All tests were done for at least 60 seconds and levels were confirmed with multiple tests.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts!
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama 
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I have a ton of longaberger pottery and a few items in several colors……paprika, sage, black and ivory. I have everything from mixing bowls, dinnerware, bakeware, etc.
After reading the findings above about longaberger, now I’m worried. What should I do? Are all the colors affected?
I also have lots of Longaberger pottery, mostly blue but baking lidded stoneware that has a red glaze on the outside! I imagine this is why maybe it was discontinued a few years back
I’ve wondered the same thing. The new owners of Longaberger brought pottery pieces back… and now on the site, it states from of lead and made in the USA. Things that make ya go hmmmmmmm. Kind of upsetting to be honest.
Oops I meant Free of lead… sorry for the typo
I am curious as to where the pottery was made?
Early Longaberger was American made. Then for whatever reason they shipped all pottery to China for manufacturing.
Please clear this up. Many people spent a lot of money for that stuff only to find out that it’s not useable because of banned chemicals in the dishes.
I am noticing a pattern here with the county of manufacture is basically China or some other Asian countries.
What the hell is going on here?
Does the Longaberger pottery made in usa have lead and cadmium?
Is longaberger usa made w blue trim safe to use
I have coffee mugs I love to drink coffee from
I really cannot say – I have not tested many examples from this brand. Here’s how to send something in for testing:
https://tamararubin.com/2019/08/tamara-can-i-send-you-one-of-my-dishes-to-test-for-lead/
Tamara