This 1976 Bunnykins baby cup tested positive for 40,200 ppm Lead on food surface. This would be illegal if made for use by kids today.

When tested with an XRF instrument, the 1976 Bunnykins baby cup pictured here had the following readings:

On the decorative design of the cup:

• Lead (Pb): 46,200 +/- 1,800 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 179 +/- 74 ppm 
• Chromium (Cr): 410 +/- 116 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 61 +/- 28 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 137 +/- 28 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 1,249 +/- 102 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 9,044 +/- 587 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 402 +/- 106 ppm

On the cup’s cream-colored surface:

• Lead (Pb): 40,200 +/- 1,500 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 149 +/- 67 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 172 +/- 40 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,204 +/- 232 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 139 +/- 62 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 495 +/- 111 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

Some additional reading that may be of interest:

• Read more about other Bunnykins products Lead Safe Mama, LLC has tested.
• Or, more on Royal Doulton products we have tested.
• And here are more results for baby cups we have tested.
• Here’s an article that details the testing Lead Safe Mama conducts and reports here on the website. 

Thank you for reading and sharing this work. As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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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).