How much Lead can you buy for $3.99 at Hobby Lobby? Ceramic floral pattern cabinet knob / drawer pull: 3,606 ppm Lead, 82 ppm Cadmium.
When tested with an XRF instrument the ceramic drawer pull / cabinet knob pictured here (with a yellow floral vine pattern, purchased at Hobby Lobby) had the following readings:
When tested with an XRF instrument the ceramic drawer pull / cabinet knob pictured here (with a yellow floral vine pattern, purchased at Hobby Lobby) had the following readings:#1) Yellow and orange flower (main component)
- Lead (Pb): 1,265 +/- 53 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 82 +/- 8 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 690 +/- 45 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 4,247 +/- 382 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 7,617 +/- 192
- Platinum (Pt): 126 +/- 57 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 4,512 +/- 158 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 275 +/- 45 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 1,335 +/- 113 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 2,842 +/- 194 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 6,777 +/- 348 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 1,579 +/- 255 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 3,957 +/- 455 ppm
#2) Metal domed base of knob
- Lead (Pb): 3,606 +/- 296 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 517 +/- 154 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 1,250 +/- 105 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 389,000 +/- 2,000 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 599,000 +/- 2,300 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 638 +/- 150 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 5,238 +/- 293 ppm
#3) Metal nut
- Selenium (Se): 1,044 +/- 163 ppm
- Zinc (Zn):30,500 +/- 800 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 424,300 +/- 2,000 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 1,843 +/- 816 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 537,400 +/- 1,800 ppm
- Manganese (Mn): 2,797 +/- 384 ppm
#4) Metal washer
- Selenium (Se): 4,049 +/- 177 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 10,000 +/- 500 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 173,500 +/- 1,700 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 897 +/- 358 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 805,000 +/- 1,900 ppm
- Manganese (Mn): 1,409 +/- 353 ppm
#5) Screw / pin attached to base
- Cadmium (Cd): 29 +/- 13 ppm
- Selenium (Se): 2,783 +/- 197 ppm
- Silver (Ag): 20 +/- 10 ppm
- Nb: 1,415 +/- 81 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 14,400 +/- 900 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 133,600 +/- 7,200 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 857 +/- 189 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 462,400 +/ 13,000 ppm
- Manganese (Mn): 1,906 +/- 266 ppm
- Indium (In): 38 +/- 18 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 820 +/- 353 ppm
“Tamara, tell me more about this testing…”
Testing is done with the same instrumentation used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for Lead (and other toxicants), when screening for safety (including screening items intended for use by children to make sure they fall within acceptable levels.) All tests are done for a minimum of 60 seconds unless otherwise noted. Tests are repeated multiple times on each component to confirm the results. Test results are science-based, accurate and replicable.
Some additional reading that may be of interest:
- More products from Hobby Lobby that I have tested.
- More Cabinet Knobs that I have tested.
- More Drawer Pulls that I have tested.
- More floral patterned items I have tested (if that’s your jam!)
- A short video that shows you how to efficiently navigate the more than 2,700 posts and pages of information on this website (please definitely watch this if you have not yet, it will help you find all the things!)
To read more about the testing methodology for nearly all test results reported on this blog, click here. Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts. As always, please let me know if you have any questions. With 1.165 Million unique readers in 2020 alone I am not always able to answer each and every question personally, but I do try. Thank you.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama 
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