Vintage 1975 Kollect-A-Set Series Coca Cola Popeye Drinking Glass: 108,300 ppm Lead. [90 ppm is unsafe for kids.]

When tested with an XRF instrument (with each test done for at least 2-minutes/120 seconds) this vintage Kollect-A-Set Series Coca Cola juice glass (from 1975) had the following readings (metals not listed were not detected by the XRF instrument):

White Painted Area:

• Lead (Pb): 68,400 +/- 1,500 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 1,101 +/- 49 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 2,296 +/- 134 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 491 +/- 52 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 3,534 +/- 232 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 9,249 +/- 377 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 472 +/- 139 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 2,634 +/- 167 ppm

Peach Painted Area:

• Lead (Pb): 83,900 +/- 2,000 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 1,680 +/- 79 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 2,607 +/- 138 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 556 +/- 60 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 3,902 +/- 262 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 14,900 +/- 600 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 376 +/- 160 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 3,082 +/- 194 ppm

Green Painted Area:

• Lead (Pb): 108,300 +/- 3,100 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 2,453 +/- 130 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 5,466 +/- 228 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 271 +/- 41 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 1,041 +/- 86 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 7,194 +/- 394 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 4,823 +/- 265 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 6,049 +/- 312 ppm

Brown Painted Area:

• Lead (Pb): 96,900 +/- 2,700 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 1,927 +/- 100 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 6,756 +/- 263 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 661 +/- 55 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 1,649 +/- 93 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 949 +/- 80 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 6,990 +/- 380 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 7,967 +/- 383 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 5,037 +/- 275 ppm

Clear Glass (base of glass):

• Bromine (Br): 8 +/- 3 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 75 +/- 32 ppm

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Tamara Rubin
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