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

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Tamara Rubin is an internationally recognized, Federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead-poisoning prevention. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. 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. She uses XRF testing (a scientific method used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for metallic toxicants (including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic). All test results reported here on LeadSafeMama.com are science-based, accurate and replicable. To read more about the testing methodology employed for the test results reported on this blog, please click this link.

Reading #1.) On the yellow 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 detected in Consumer Goods mode.

Reading #2.) 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 detected in Consumer Goods mode.

Why is it a problem if the Lead paint is only on the outside?
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More info to be posted shortly.