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Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (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.
Published: Saturday — December 19, 2020
Out of ELEVEN Spode examples currently on the website, only one is in the Lead-safe range — the rest are all very high Lead. The one in the Lead-safe range was manufactured fairly recently (I think in the past 5 years).
This article has links to quickly and easily view all of the Spode pieces on the Lead Safe Mama site.
- Here’s an important video to help people understand how to navigate the more than 2,600 articles with information (including consumer goods test results) here on Lead Safe Mama.com! Check out the Link.
- Here’s the category overview link for SPODE. When you click this, it will come up with a set of at least 11 articles (at the time of publishing this) that you can scroll through to see all of the related pieces: Category link.
- Spode “Consul Cobalt” pattern saucer — link
- English Spode “Italian” pattern bowl — link
- English Spode “Italian” pattern dish — link
- English Spode “Italian” pattern, newer dish — link
- Spode “Copeland Wicker Lane” saucer — link
- Vintage Spode “Christmas Tree” pattern plate — link
- Vintage Spode “Fairy Dell” pattern plate — link
- Spode “Delamere Blue” pattern dish — link
- Spode yellow “Albany” pattern dish — link
- Spode “Blue Chintz” pattern dish — link
- Spode Gainsborough England China dish — link
- Here’s a piece about how to send a dish in for testing (to add it to the database of information here on the site) — link.
- Here’s an article with details on how you can make a contribution in support of this work. Thank you!
Thanks for being here! Thanks for reading. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
how cold you tell they were leaded from the website? This is all new to me, and I thank you for all your work on this. My IQ has dropped considerably since finding out how much my dishware is made with lead and/or arsenic
Hello I can NOT find dishes that are safe such as plates, bowels, etc. If you don’t mind me asking what brand plates and dives do you use for your family?
Hi…I have a bone China set called Pink Tower by spode. Is there any lead or harmful elements?
It really depends on the age. if it is older than 10 years old it is likely very high Lead.
T
I just bought a set of Spode Blue Italian dishes, all made in England. Are they safe because they are new, or all Blue Italian dishes loaded with lead and arsenic? If so, how does our government allow this?