Vintage Churchill “Made In England” Blue & White Ceramic Dish: 87,700 ppm Lead (90 ppm is unsafe for kids.)
When tested with an XRF instrument (for a minimum of 60 seconds per test) the food surface of the dish pictured here had the following readings:
- Lead (Pb): 87,700 +/- 2,900 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 1,431 +/- 154 ppm
- Selenium (Se): 171 +/- 56 ppm
- Gold (Au): 209 +/- 89 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 83 +/- 36 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 897 +/- 213 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 597 +/- 75 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 1,249 +/- 129 ppm
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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Gosh I wonder what my current every day dish Nantucket Basket by Wedgwood lead is? Making me so nervous.
Hi Belinda, – what was the year made? If it is more than 10 years old, it is likely to be very high lead in the glaze.
Tamara
Do you know anything about Churchill Out of the Blue plates?
Do you know about Churchill plates with Queen’s written on back. Style is called Oriental Garden.