Antique blue milk glass small pitcher with handle: 161 ppm Lead (not a concerning amount in a decorative item likely used as a vase)


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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).


XRF test results for the light blue milk glass pitcher pictured here
60-second test

  • Lead (Pb): 161 +/- 17 ppm
  • Zinc (Zn): 13,000 +/- 300 ppm
  • Copper (Cu): 2,316 +/- 100 ppm
  • Iron (Fe): 553 +/- 130 ppm
  • Titanium (Ti): 278 +/- 108 ppm

Thank you for reading and for sharing this work. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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