Target Threshold Earthenware Easter Bunny mug: 217 ppm Lead in the black accents, 90 ppm on the white glaze

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Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the test results for each component tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

Target Threshold Earthenware white glazed Easter Bunny mug:

The full XRF test results of the bunny mug pictured are below (so please scroll down). Here are links to some additional reading that may be of interest based on your interest in the test results of this item:

Stay Safe Out There!
A quick note from Tamara:

Hey readers — I hope you are staying well out there with all that is going on in the world right now. I’m hanging out mostly at home with my children and have been doing so for about 10 days now. I pulled them out of school over a week ago — just to be safe. Each of my three youngest sons have compromised immune systems (which manifests in different ways for each of them) due to having been Lead-poisoned as babies.

In between kid-wrangling, I am working hard to publish literally HUNDREDS of new pieces (with test results for various consumer goods I have tested over the past couple of years, but have not yet had a moment to report on!). These articles have created a backlog in my system for more than a year now — and it’s actually nice to have a *break* with some time to catch up! To make this happen as quickly as possible, I am (as with this post) simply publishing 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!)

For those new to my website, please check out the menu in the header of the website for more information about how I test things (and my background, etc.). On each piece, you can also click on any of the keyword tabs at the top of the post to find more items from that category. Here’s the article discussing the type of testing Lead Safe Mama conducts, and the specific instrument used to detect, analyze, and confirm metals content, ultimately producing the resultant data for each item reported here on the site — link.

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

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

Thank you for reading and for sharing these results!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

Test results for the bunny mug (Made in China) pictured in this post:

Bunny Mug — white exterior glaze:

Lead (Pb): 90 +/- 30 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 160 +/- 35 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 3,546 +/- 259 ppm
Copper (Cu): 107 +/- 71 ppm
Iron (Fe): 2,811 +/- 453 ppm
Vanadium (V): 981 +/- 140 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 2,504 +/- 280 ppm
Zirconium (Zr): 1,892 +/- 97 ppm

Bunny Mug — black exterior glaze:

Lead (Pb): 217 +/- 40 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 117 +/- 30 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 1,975 +/- 175 ppm
Nickel (Ni): 6,298 +/- 483 ppm
Iron (Fe): 50,500 +/- 2,400 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 20,400 +/- 1,100 ppm
Vanadium (V): 477 +/- 94 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 1,106 +/- 154 ppm
Cobalt (Co): 14,600 +/- 900 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 5,740 +/- 836 ppm

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