Red, Newer (year/vendor unknown) Vinyl-Coated Garage Bike Storage Hook: Lead Free, Cadmium Free, Arsenic Free!

When tested with an XRF instrument, this newer (specific year of purchase/manufacture is unknown – sorry!) red vinyl-coated (“rubberized”) garage / bike storage hook pictured here had the following readings:

Testing was done on the red vinyl coated component of the hook.

• Barium (Ba): 398 +/- 42 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 482 +/- 31 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 74 +/- 46 ppm

All metals detected are listed above.

If a metal was not detected by the XRF, it was not listed.

As with all tests on this blog, readings were done for a minimum of 60 seconds (in Consumer Goods mode) unless otherwise noted.

Results are science-based and replicable. 

Takeaway / My Advice:

If you need hooks like this, please consider only buying newer hooks (which are likely to have lower Lead levels, or even be negative for Lead – like this one is) vs. re-using second-hand older hooks which can have very high Lead levels (see example here). I specifically would not get these at a yard sale or similar.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama