Walt Disney Y2K Dancing Mickey Mouse McDonald’s Drinking Glass: 1,432 Cadmium in the red paint. Cadmium causes cancer. Thanks, Disney!

 

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Continue reading below the images of additional cups/ mugs/ glassware we have tested. Each image below is a direct link to a separate piece about the item, which includes XRF test results. 

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Published April 30, 2022 — Saturday

Full XRF test results for the glass pictured.

For additional information please check out the following articles:

• More Disney items with test results 
• More Mickey Mouse items with test results 
• More McDonald’s items with test results 
• More cartoon character glasses with test results 
• An article discussing the concern for Cadmium in consumer goods.

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Reading #1) Test on the red of Mickey’s outfit
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): 1.432 +/- 43 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Arsenic (As): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 7,230 +/- 518 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 609 +/- 121 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 102 +/- 56 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 1,871 +/- 90 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 681 +/- 43 ppm
• Selenium (Se): 1,422 +/- 45 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 14,300 +/- 1,300 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 7,053 +/- 159 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 159 +/- 39 ppm
• No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

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Reading #2) Test on an unpainted glass area of the glass
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Arsenic (As): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• No metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

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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). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the results for each component. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

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