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.
XRF Test results for the Stangl dish pictured
XRF Test results for the Stangl dish pictured#1.) Center of the food surface of the dish pictured – on the blue flower:
- Lead (Pb): 133,000 +/- 4,700 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 318 +/- 123 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 208 +/- 46 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 637 +/- 68 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 1,163 +/- 156 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 424 +/- 176 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 599 +/- 192 ppm
#2.) White section of the food surface dish pictured:
- Lead (Pb): 119,800 +/- 4,800 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 513 +/- 147 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 132 +/- 46 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 478 +/- 210 ppm
Hello and thank you for conducting these tests. I’m not sure if you’re saying that the country garden pattern is safer because the numbers are lower than the stangl peach. I have a set of the country garden. are there circumstances that it’s considered alright to use them, or should they be thrown away? thanks again.
All pieces from this brand are unsafe for food use. Anything over 90 ppm Lead in the paint or coating may be unsafe – and these aren’t 900, or 9000 or even 90,000 – they are all incredibly high in Lead on the surface glaze and incredibly unsafe for food use purposes.
Hi There.. Oh I am so bummed. I just bought a beautiful set of Stangl at a thrift store…. I’m not sure how old it is – but it does have a very shiny glaze on all the pieces. I guess to be safe I should not use it? And also where would I buy that tester that you have? I did buy the swabs from Amazon but they all came back negative for lead but I don’t believe it. You are saying all of the Stangl is unsafe for food use though.. so why bother
Thanks so much for doing this!!! I bought a set of Country Garden at a flea market as I remember growing up with them…and now have to throw them all away 🙁
Thanks again Tamara,
Jim K
Boston
So can I assume my inherited collection of Stangl “Thistle” is fully leaded? We just used it for Christmas dinner! I guess I’ll hang the platter on the wall and pitch the rest.