Grace’s Teaware Purple Flower Saucer: 30,000 ppm Lead [For Context: 90 ppm Lead is unsafe in children’s items.]

When tested with an XRF instrument the Grace’s Teaware saucer pictured here (with purple flowers with green leaves – additional photos below) had the following readings:

Green Leaves:

• Lead (Pb): 30,000 +/- 800 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 3,060 +/- 170 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 157 +/- 29 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 84 +/- 23 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 11,100 +/- 400 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,935 +/- 231 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 75 +/- 35 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 333 +/- 64 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 1,884 +/- 74 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 361 +/-147 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 986 +/- 140 ppm

Purple Flowers:

• Lead (Pb): 19,000 +/- 500 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 356 +/- 27 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 11,000 +/- 300 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 481 +/- 140 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 127 +/- 37 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 609 +/- 75 ppm
• Silver (Ag): 26 +/- 7 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 1,906 +/- 66 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 305 +/- 121 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 2,506 +/- 185 ppm

Each area was tested for a minimum of 60 seconds (one full minute) using an XRF instrument testing in “Consumer Goods” mode. All test results reported on this blog are science-based and replicable. Metals not listed in the reading sets above were not detected by the XRF in “Consumer Goods” mode.

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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama