2017 Spectr Design “Coffee before Talkie” ceramic mug: 59 ppm Lead (safe by all standards)

 

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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). Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

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When tested with an XRF instrument, the 2017 Spectr Design “Coffee before Talkie” ceramic mug (pictured here) had the following readings:

Focus on the blue of the mug:
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): 24 +/- 10 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 68 +/- 33 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 3,170 +/- 81 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 252 +/- 99 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 31,500 +/-700 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 72 +/- 33 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,212 +/- 182 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 15,600 +/- 900 ppm

Focus on the black printed words:
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): 59 +/- 12 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 11 +/- 5 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 101 +/- 31 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 6,406 +/- 402 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 25 +/- 11 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 15,700 +/- 400 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 129 +/- 35 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 650 +/- 85 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 5,840 +/- 259 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 25,300 +/- 700 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 721 +/- 237 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 9,876 +/- 690 ppm

Focus on the white of the mug (which is also the interior glaze):
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): 31 +/- 11 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 157 +/- 33 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 1,715 +/- 46 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 497 +/- 103 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 32,600 +/- 700 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,418 +/- 186 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 586 +/- 201 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 16,000+/- 900 ppm

Focus on the logo on the bottom of the mug:
30-second test

• Zirconium (Zr): 4,209 +/- 147 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 31,600 +/- 1,000 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,100 +/- 250 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 15,800 +/- 2,400 ppm

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