2010 Lenox Opal Innocence china (Made In USA): 68 ppm Lead on the food surface. This is safe by all standards.

Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Introduction: Tamara Rubin is a independent advocate for consumer goods safety, and she is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009 and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses high-precision XRF testing (a scientific method used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for contaminants including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic. [bio link]

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I am working hard to get through literally HUNDREDS of posts that have created a backlog in my system for more than a year now. To make this happen, I am simply posting the images and the test results – without a lot of additional information. [Do not worry — I will continue to update them with more information as I get caught up and begin to have the time!]

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Please Note: Test results reported below are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Test results reported here are from tests that were done for a minimum of 60 seconds each, and repeated multiple times, to confirm the results. As with all the testing reported here on my blog, a freshly-calibrated high-precision XRF instrument testing in Consumer Goods mode was used to test the item pictured here.

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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

Test results for the 2010 Lenox Opal Innocence china pictured:

Center of plate – food surface:

Lead (Pb): 64 +/- 22 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 104 +/- 24 ppm
Barium (Ba): 339 +/- 54 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 6,624 +/- 324 ppm
Copper (Cu): 91 +/- 56 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,915 +/- 312 ppm
Vanadium (V): 2,075 +/- 206 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 2,706 +/- 283 ppm

Center of plate – food surface, reading 2:

Lead (Pb): 38 +/- 12 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 77 +/- 14 ppm
Barium (Ba): 369 +/- 35 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 5,970 +/- 195 ppm
Copper (Cu): 121 +/- 37 ppm
Nickel (Ni): 115 +/- 61 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,966 +/- 200 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 248 +/- 134 ppm
Vanadium (V): 1,935 +/- 167 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 2,881 +/- 245 ppm

Decorated cream rim of plate – food surface:

Lead (Pb): 68 +/- 17 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 63 +/- 17 ppm
Barium (Ba): 209 +/- 42 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 3,940 +/- 181 ppm
Copper (Cu): 140 +/- 48 ppm
Iron (Fe): 2,140 +/- 261 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 2,455 +/- 347 ppm
Vanadium (V): 12,400 +/- 600 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 21,100 +/- 1,000 ppm

Silver edge of plate:

Barium (Ba): 252 +/- 77 ppm
Gold (Au): 3,329 +/- 330 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 4,124 +/- 316 ppm
Iron (Fe): 2,065 +/- 440 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 2,356 +/- 395 ppm
Vanadium (V): 12,100 +/- 900 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 6,307 +/- 574 ppm
Platinum (Pt): 1,114 +/- 206 ppm

Back Mark of Plate:

Bismuth (Bi): 71 +/- 32 ppm
Barium (Ba): 363 +/- 74 ppm
Gold (Au): 613 +/- 183 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 5,245 +/- 369 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,873 +/- 414 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 149 +/- 92 ppm
Vanadium (V): 1,882 +/- 164 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 2,551 +/- 235 ppm
Platinum (Pt): 257 +/- 137 ppm

Back edge without glaze:

Bismuth (Bi): 34 +/- 14 ppm
Barium (Ba): 203 +/- 41 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 2,325 +/- 131 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,786 +/- 253 ppm
Vanadium (V): 969 +/- 134 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 1,448 +/- 195 ppm

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