Pressed glass salt shaker: Non-detect for Lead, but positive for traces of Gold and Platinum

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For those new to this website:

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).

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These posts today are placeholders JUST with the XRF data for the item pictured. They will be updated with more details a.s.a.p. All readings are done multiple times to confirm the results for each component before sharing one full set of the readings for the item pictured.

Reading #1 — The metallic lid of the shaker
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 19,000 +/- 300 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 349 +/- 39 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 212,000 +/- 4,500 ppm 
• Copper (Cu): 276,700 +/- 6,000 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 119 +/- 44 ppm
• Gold (Au): 168 +/- 30 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

Reading #2 — The glass body of the shaker
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 235 +/- 42 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

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Some additional reading that may be of interest:

• A link discussing the testing methodology used here on this website.
• A menu with buttons to lots of different information categories that can be found here on this website.
• A link to my documentary feature film on childhood Lead poisoning.
• The short video that shows you how to search this site.
• Things you can test at home with a LeadCheck swab
• Things you really cannot test at home (better tested with XRF technology)

As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for reading and thank you for sharing these results. 

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama