Introduction:
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. To read more about the testing methodology employed for the test results reported on this blog, please click this link.
Food surface of dish:
1-minute reading
- Lead (Pb): 46,300 +/- 400 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 930 +/- 50 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 96 +/- 22 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 316 +/- 28 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 20 +/- 10 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 205 +/- 11 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 1,365 +/- 19 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 35 +/- 5 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 131 +/- 19 ppm
- Non-Detect for: Cadmium, Mercury, Bromine, Chromium
Back of dish:
1-minute reading
- Lead (Pb): 66,600 +/- 700 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 722 +/- 50 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 290 +/- 30 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 133 +/- 10 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 1,449 +/- 23 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 53 +/- 6 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 160 +/- 22 ppm
- Non-Detect for: Cadmium, Mercury, Bromine, Chromium
How much Lead is “too much” Lead?
For context, the amount of Lead that is considered unsafe in an item intended for use by children is anything 90 ppm Lead or higher in the paint, glaze or coating of an item or anything 100 ppm Lead or higher in the substrate. Unfortunately (as discussed in most posts on this website) there is no law limiting total (XRF-detectable) Lead content in dishes or cookware (or really in any consumer goods not expressly “intended for use by children”.)
Some additional reading that may be of interest:
- Can I test my own dishes myself at home?
- What can I test with a home test kit?
- Can I send you a dish to test?
- How to use this website to search for products you have in your home (video).
As always, thank you for reading and for sharing these posts. Please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them personally as soon as I have a moment.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
I have been searching to try and find Fritz & Floyd Everyday White Dishware lead and other toxic levels. Do you know anything about that FF line?
Thank you.
I too am looking forward information on Fitz and Floyd. My dishes are Nevaeh sold at Bed Bath and Beyond for years.
Yes! I also was going to ask if you have tested any Simply White dishes and serving pieces by Fitz and Floyd from Bed Bath and Beyond. I searched the website but all it says is that their products are “safe for serving” and says pretty much nothing else, which makes me think there must be measurable levels of lead still used since nowhere did I see any “lead free” or “non-toxic” claims. I emailed the company and asked about lead in their products as well as requested leach-testing results. All I got were crickets, no response! Not even a simple “our dishes are safe” attempt at appeasing me. I received quite a bit of serving pieces by them as wedding gifts in 2017, so I am very curious as to what their XRF results would be. I am also curious if their simply white dishes would have different results than the serving pieces.
Hi! I’m also here to ask same thing as the ladies before me. I also have the plain ones from Bed Bath & Beyond. Nevaeh White by Fits and Floyd fine bone China and also Everyday White porcelain by Fitz and Floyd. They are all just plain white and have a white logo underneath on the outside with black ink. Thank you.
Same question! We have the same ones from Bed Bath & Beyond.
Has anyone found lead testing for nevaeh white by fitz and Floyd fine bone China? From bed bath and beyond
Hello, I am also here to try to find out if Fitz and Floyd Everyday White Porcelain dishes contain lead.
I have mine from 2013 White Nevaeh by Fitz & Floyd and they are my daily dishes!
Hello~ during recent inquiry to FF about possibility lead in glaze or clay body of thrift store find, an ornate ‘ Woodland Spring ‘ cookie jar made prior to 1999, was informed that Fitz And Floyd ceramics was acquired by Lifetime Brands September 5 2017. Lifetime Brands rep could not answer as to any factual details of toxic chemistry used by FF, however assured that Lifetime Brands complies with safety standards in their ceramic products. Is there a date for production of the hand decorated leaf dish tested for this article?
I don’t believe this was vintage.
Thank you for reply. So, as some companies are bought up and taken over, stream of items for domestic consumption remain marketed under hard won ‘ brand ‘ identity, responsibility for previous harm to finisher~sanders, handwork decorators, glaze/pugmill mixers from internationally based factories, their families ( chemical dust residue on contaminated clothing ) and consumers, is set adrift.