Her Universe My Neighbor Totoro clear glass mug (Studio Ghibli) sold at Hot Topic: 34,000 ppm Lead

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Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the test results for each component tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

60-second Test
Center of Totoro’s Belly

• Lead (Pb): 34,000 +/- 300 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 1,176 +/-19 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): 87 +/- 12 ppm
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 3,856 +/- 162 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 107 +/- 38 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 38 +/- 25 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 913 +/- 27 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 190 +/- 10 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 24,300 +/- 600 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 226 +/- 6 ppm
• Nb: 233 +/- 9 ppm
• Indium (In): 15 +/- 4 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 577 +/- 43 ppm

60-second Test
Clear glass part of the cup

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): 8 +/-2 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 83 +/- 32 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 272 +/- 4 ppm
• Nb: 247 +/- 7 ppm
• Indium (In): 9 +/- 2 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 4 +/- 3 ppm
• no other metals were detected