---

For those new to this website:

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).

---

Published: Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Thomas “Sunny Day” pink pattern saucer:

The full XRF test results for the Thomas saucer pictured are below (please scroll down). Here are links to some additional reading based on your interest in the test results of this item:

• Click here to see more vintage dishes Lead Safe Mama, LLC has tested.
• Click here to see more “Made in Germany” items we have tested.
• Click here to read about why having this much Lead in china can be a serious problem!

---

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 posts and articles (with 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 pieces 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 piece) simply posting images and the test results — without a lot of additional information. (Do not worry — I will continue updating each article with more information as I get caught up and begin having the time again!)

For those new to this site, please check out the menu in the header of the website for more information about how we test things (and my personal background, etc.)

You can also click on any of the keyword tabs at the top of each post to find more items in that category. Here’s an article discussing the type of testing Lead Safe Mama conducts, plus the specific instrument used to detect, analyze, and confirm metals content, ultimately producing the resultant data for each item we report on the site.

Please Note: Test results reported below are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Test results reported here 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 sharing this work!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

---

Test results for the Thomas saucer (Made in Germany) pictured:

Pink area of food surface:

• Lead (Pb): 11,200 +/- 500 ppm
• Arsenic (As): 1,209 +/- 233 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 3,246 +/- 631 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 446 +/- 40 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 6,661 +/- 318 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 637 +/- 173 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 255 +/- 69 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 3,053 +/- 834 ppm

White in the center of food surface:

• Lead (Pb): 1,426 +/- 82 ppm
• Arsenic (As): 216 +/- 59 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 2,771 +/- 419 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 77 +/- 51 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,077 +/- 138 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 119 +/- 39 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 114 +/- 74 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 1,427 +/- 690 ppm

Logo area on back:

• Lead (Pb): 262 +/- 48 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 2,518 +/- 577 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 65 +/- 32 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,397 +/- 204 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 131 +/- 38 ppm

 ~ End ~
Please scroll down for additional photos of this item.