Max Eckardt & Sons Shiny Brite Vintage Glass Christmas Ornaments: 23,400 ppm Lead in the yellow bands. 90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids.

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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). Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

Reading #1) Yellow Bands

30-second reading

Lead (Pb): 23,400 +/- 500 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): Non-detect
Mercury (Hg): Non-detect
Bromine (Br): 10 +/- 5 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 7,313 +/- 525 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,103 +/- 137 ppm
Copper (Cu): 107 +/- 35 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 11,000 +/- 300 ppm
Zirconium (Zr): 397 +/- 18 ppm
Nb: 602 +/- 28 ppm
Molybdenum (Mo): 547 +/- 34 ppm
Silver (Ag): 1,267 +/- 46 ppm
Indium (In): 24 +/- 9 ppm
Barium (Ba): 7,310 +/- 268 ppm
No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

Reading #2) Pink Bands
30-second reading

Lead (Pb): 65 +/- 9 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): Non-detect
Mercury (Hg): 29 +/- 11 ppm
Bromine (Br): Non-detect
Chromium (Cr): 129 +/- 60 ppm
Iron (Fe): 450 +/- 41 ppm
Copper (Cu): 45 +/- 19 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 39 +/- 9 ppm
Barium (Ba): 247 +/- 112 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 17 +/- 6 ppm
No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

Reading #3) White Bands
30-second reading

Lead (Pb): 682 +/- 32 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): 21 +/- 5 ppm
Mercury (Hg): Non-detect
Bromine (Br): 17 +/- 3 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 474 +/- 310 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 275 +’- 182 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,662 +/- 140 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 11,000 +/- 300 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 62,900 +/- 2,400 ppm
Zirconium (Zr): 453 +/- 15 ppm
Nb: 849 +/- 26 ppm
Molybdenum (Mo): 693 +/- 29 ppm
Indium (In): 26 +/- 7 ppm
Tin (Sn): 23 +/- 8 ppm
Barium (Ba): 4,356 +/- 128 ppm
No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

Reading #4) Blue Bands
30-second reading

Lead (Pb): 77 +/- 9 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): Non-detect
Mercury (Hg): Non-detect
Bromine (Br): Non-detect
Chromium (Cr): 160 +/- 65 ppm
Iron (Fe): 427 +/- 43 ppm
Nickel (Ni): 37 +/- 19 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 28 +/- 9 ppm
Barium (Ba): 275 +/- 123 ppm
No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

Some additional Christmas-related info for you to explore here on the Lead Safe Mama website:

Christmas: https://tamararubin.com/category/christmas/
Artificial Christmas Trees: https://tamararubin.com/category/artificial-christmas-tree/
Christmas Ornaments: https://tamararubin.com/category/christmas-ornaments/
Christmas Mugs: https://tamararubin.com/category/christmas-mugs/
Christmas China: https://tamararubin.com/category/christmas-china/
Christmas Decorations: https://tamararubin.com/category/christmas-decoration/
Santa: https://tamararubin.com/category/santa/

Thank you for reading and sharing this work. Please explore the links above for more information about concerns around Christmas-centric consumer goods.

Tamara Elise Rubin
#LeadSafeMama