Ikea mug with blue, orange and yellow design, made in Thailand. Item 15199: 82 ppm Lead + 41 ppm Antimony.

When tested with an XRF instrument this mug had the following readings:

#1.) on the plain white glazed components of the mug

• Barium (Ba): 2,399 +/- 492 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 21,100 +/- 900 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 321 +/- 112 ppm 
• Bismuth (Bi): 147 +/- 56 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 134 +/- 76 ppm

#2.) on the blue & yellow center of the flower

• Lead (Pb): 58 +/- 20 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 138 +/- 55 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 2,245 +/- 190 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 41 +/- 21 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 28,500 +/- 900 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 308 +/- 60 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 799 +/- 190 ppm 
• Vanadium (V): 789 +/- 114 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 11,000 +/- 600 ppm

#3.) on the orange and yellow glazed components

• Lead (Pb): 82 +/- 32 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 128 +/- 83 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 31,100 +/- 1,400 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 491 +/- 99 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 7,308 +/- 642 ppm 

#4.) on the blue glazed components

• Barium (Ba): 3,231 +/- 380 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 1,495 +/- 75 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 19,100 +/- 600 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 83 +/- 36 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 460 +/- 99 ppm 
• Bismuth (Bi): 93 +/- 37 ppm

Some additional reading that may be of interest:

• More Ikea items I have tested – link
• More Ikea mugs I have tested – link
• More mugs (from all brands and countries of origin) that I have tested – link
• Some background on the testing I do that is reported on this blog – link

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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama