West Elm White Ceramic Large Pasta Bowl (Indonesia): Lead-safe food surface & high-Lead back mark/logo area.

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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.

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Full XRF test results for the West Elm dish pictured
(made in Indonesia)

120-second reading, Food Surface of Dish – reading #1

• Lead (Pb): 6 +/- 2 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 5 +/-1 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 523 +/- 30 ppm
• Indium (In): 3 +/- 2 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 8 +/- 2 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 12 +/- 7 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 31 +/- 3 ppm

60-second reading, Food Surface of Dish – reading #2

• Lead (Pb): 7 +/- 3 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 8 +/- 2 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 550 +/- 45 ppm
• Indium (In): 7 +/- 3 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 6 +/- 3 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 33 +/- 4 ppm

30-second reading, Back Mark / Logo of Dish – reading #1
over hot cup symbol 

• Lead (Pb): 2,819 +/- 48 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 33 +/-3 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 935 +/- 166
• Manganese (Mn): 1,640 +/- 128 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,850 +/- 93 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 1,535 +/- 67 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 677 +/- 25 ppm
• Indium (In): 6 +/- 4 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 8 +/- 4 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 43 +/- 23 ppm

60-second reading, Back Mark / Logo of Dish – reading #2
over microwave symbol 

• Lead (Pb): 2,788 +/- 32 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 34 +/- 2 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 940 +/- 114
• Manganese (Mn): 1,711 +/- 89 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,895 +/- 64 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 1,529 +/- 46 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 661 +/- 17 ppm
• Indium (In): 5 +/- 3 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 7 +/- 3 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 69 +/- 16 ppm

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Some additional reading that might be of interest:

• The post discussing the testing methodology used on this website
• Post discussing how to send in an item for testing
• Things that you can test at home.
• Things that might be better tested with an XRF instrument.

Thanks for reading. Thank you for sharing my posts. As always, 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 (which may not be right away – but I will try!)

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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