Recently Purchased Anfora Pottery Barn Puebla Pattern Dish – Made in Mexico: 15,500 ppm Lead on the food surface.

Introduction

Tamara Rubin is an independent advocate for consumer goods safety and she is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009 and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses XRF testing (a scientific method used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for contaminants including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic.

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XRF Test results for the dish pictured here…

#1) Center of food surface of dish – on blue of design

• Lead (Pb): 11,200 +/- 200 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,827 +/- 79 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 598 +/- 162 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 4,246 +/- 103 ppm
• Tin (Sn):  61 +/- 15 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 7,497 +/- 205 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 138 +/- 34 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 16,500 +/- 500 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,209 +/- 139 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 991 +/- 135 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 2,134 +/- 230 ppm

#2) Center of food surface of dish – on blue of design, second test

• Lead (Pb): 15,500 +/- 300 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,963 +/- 92 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 750 +/- 172 ppm
• Silver (Ag): 13 +/- 6 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 4,160 +/- 112 ppm
• Tin (Sn):  116 +/- 18 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 9,883 +/- 276 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 88 +/- 35 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 21,100 +/- 143 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,092 +/- 143 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 688 +/- 123 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 1,675 +/- 216 ppm

#3) Focus on white glazed background on front of dish

• Lead (Pb): 379 +/- 25 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,672 +/- 77 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 4,682 +/- 118 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 292 +/- 35 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 140 +/- 38 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,120 +/- 167 ppm

#4) Focus on white glazed background on back of dish

• Lead (Pb): 40 +/- 13 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,448 +/- 74 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 4,080 +/- 109 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 248 +/- 34 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 132 +/- 39 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,013 +/- 169 ppm

#5) Black back mark / logo on dish

• Lead (Pb): 1,525 +/- 58 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,678 +/- 83 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 2,245 +/- 510 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 4,737 +/- 129 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 292 +/- 37 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 141 +/- 41 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 166 +/- 72 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 589 +/- 113 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,426 +/- 235 ppm