Crate & Barrel (Made in Bangladesh) Marc Bennett 9-inch salad plate: 8,322 ppm Lead on the back mark / logo area of the dish.

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 metallic toxicants (including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic). To read more about the testing methodology employed for the test results reported on this blog, please click this link.

Reading #1.) food surface of the dish
90-second test [All tests on all components are repeated multiple times to confirm the accuracy of the range of test results.]

Lead (Pb): 128 +/- 6 ppm
Iron (Fe): 918 +/- 44 ppm
Copper (Cu): 72 +/- 10 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 17,800 +/- 200 ppm
Zirconium (Zr): 1,953 +/- 20 ppm
Tin (Sn): 28 +/- 3 ppm
Barium (Ba): 56 +/- 12 ppm

Reading #2.) black logo area on the back of the dish
60-second test

Lead (Pb): 8,322 +/- 86 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): 4 +/- 2 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 5,286 +/- 180 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 4,136 +/- 126 ppm
Iron (Fe): 2,605 +/- 78 ppm
Cobalt (Co): 5,803 +/- 96 ppm
Copper (Cu): 227 +/- 16 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 12,400 +/- 100 ppm
Zirconium (Zr): 1,535 +/- 19 ppm
Tin (Sn): 38 +/- 4 ppm
Barium (Ba): 71 +/- 15 ppm
Platinum (Pt): 57 +/- 30 ppm

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