222 Fifth “Bonjour Paris” Jumbo Mug with Eiffel Tower – Made in Indonesia: 23 ppm Lead on the plain white (safe by all standards) & 5,802 ppm Lead on the logo mark.

Published: Tuesday – December 14, 2021

How much Lead is “too much” Lead?

In any item intended for use by children, Lead content must be below 90 ppm in the paint, glaze, or coating for the item to be legal (and any Lead present in the substrate of an item needs to be below 100 ppm), as regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

[Crazy-but-true fact: dishes and cookware (including mugs) are not covered by this regulatory standard, because [except in the State of Washington] dishes and cookware are not considered to be “items intended for use by children” — despite the obvious fact that CHILDREN CONSUME FOOD THAT IS PREPARED in the COOKWARE and SERVED on the DISHES.]

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XRF Readings for colorful 222 Fifth “Bonjour Paris”Jumbo Mug

Reading #1) White glazed area on the mug
30-second test

• Lead (Pb): 23 +/- 8 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 675 +/- 185 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 428 +/- 73 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 297 +/- 27 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 19,200 +/- 300 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 22,400 +/- 400 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 3,024 +/- 80 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 130 +/- 46 ppm
• No other metals detected in consumer goods mode.

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Reading #2) Black glazed area on the mug
30-second test

• Lead (Pb): 47 +/- 8 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 2,902 +/- 218 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 2.041 +/- 163 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 3,630 +/- 129 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 3,193 +/- 99 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 303 +/- 25 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 16,300 +/- 200 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 17,900 +/- 300 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 2,169 +/- 55 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 168 +/- 41 ppm
• No other metals detected in consumer goods mode.

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Reading #3) Back-mark on the bottom of the mug
30-second test

• Lead (Pb): 5,802 +/- 95 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 5,824 +/- 276 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 8,462 +/- 198 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 4,407 +/- 124 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 227 +/- 24 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 14,700 +/- 200 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 15,200 +/- 300 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,870 +/- 51 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 203 +/- 47 ppm
• No other metals detected in consumer goods mode.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions. I will do my best to answer them personally as soon as I have a moment – but it may be a while (kids underfoot nearly 24/7 since the start of the pandemic, y’know!)

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
Owner, Lead Safe Mama, LLC

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Tamara Rubin is a Federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. Tamara’s sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in August of 2005. 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. Tamara uses XRF testing (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. Please click through to this link to learn more about the testing methodology used for the test results discussed and reported on this website.