Vintage Yellow Corelle Milk Glass Mug: 154,100 ppm Lead + 14,200 ppm Cadmium + 9,582 ppm Arsenic (Cadmium causes cancer while Lead is toxic at 90 ppm and up)

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For those new to the Lead Safe Mama 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 four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).

• Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
• Since July 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for six product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
• All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
• Please check out our press page to see some of the news coverage of our work, linked here.

 

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On yellow part of the mug
60-second reading:

• Lead (Pb): 154,100 +/- 3,000 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 14,200 +/- 300 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromum (Cr): 1,297 +/- 114 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 578 +/- 55 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 85 +/- 29 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 23,700 +/- 500 ppm
• Arsenic (As): 9,582 +/- 312 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 9,588 +/- 491 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 1,941 +/- 156 ppm
• Gold (Au): 512 +/- 68 ppm
• No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

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On the white of the milk glass
60-second reading:

• Lead (Pb): 350 +/- 14 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 16 +/- 3 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br); 91 +/- 3 ppm
• Chromum (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 629 +/- 45 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 73,100 +/- 800 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 321 +/- 8 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 18 +/- 7 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 88 +/- 18 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 197 +/- 59 ppm
• No other metals were detected in Consumer Goods mode.

Why is it a problem if the Lead paint is only on the outside? Read more here.

More info will be published shortly.