Published: May 24, 2022 (via TikTok)
XRF Test Results For The Dish Pictured
Reading #1) Back Mark (logo area) of the dish:
- Lead (Pb): 2,728 +/- 136 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Arsenic (As): non-detect
- Antimony (Sb): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Manganese (Mn): 652 +/- 292 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,346 +/- 235 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 1,278 +/- 173 ppm
Reading #2) Blue edge of dish:
- Lead (Pb): 51 +/- 16 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 29 +/- 9 ppm
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Arsenic (As): non-detect
- Antimony (Sb): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Cobalt (Co): 8,342 +/- 354 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,755 +/- 196 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 96 +/- 37 ppm
Reading #3) Center of food surface of dish – on white:
- Lead (Pb): 68 +/- 19 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Arsenic (As): non-detect
- Antimony (Sb): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Iron (Fe): 1,096 +/- 186 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 22,900 +/- 700 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 245 +/- 15 ppm
Reading #4) Center of food surface of dish – on blueberries:
- Lead (Pb): 9,888 +/- 197 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Arsenic (As): non-detect
- Antimony (Sb): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Iron (Fe): 804 +/- 103 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 4,731 +/- 171 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 43 +/- 21 ppm
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Background updated September 2022:
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. Her work was also responsible for two CPSC product recalls in the summer of 2022, the Jumping Jumperoo recall (June 2022) and the Lead painted NUK baby bottle recall (July 2022) and was featured in an NPR story about Lead in consumer goods in August of 2022. 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 and reported on. Please click through to this link to learn more about the testing methodology used for the test results discussed and reported on this website.
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I saw you weren’t taking anymore items for testing but is there any change you have (or would) test the Corelle dishes that use recycled glass? I contacted the company and they are only using recycled glass now. On Amazon, the comments section is full of people stating that the white dishes you tested are safe, but they aren’t aware that the dishes being sold now are 80% recycled glass. That’s a high % and as you know, recycled glass can be high in lead. The company isn’t specifying if the recycled glass is coming from China or where exactly. There’s so many products full of lead so it would be the biggest piece of mind to have our plates be lead free for our children. Thank you so much!
I tested new ones about a year ago – but they are not marked as being recycled glass. If someone wants to send me some to test – here’s how that works:
https://tamararubin.com/2019/08/tamara-can-i-send-you-one-of-my-dishes-to-test-for-lead/
Tamara
If a dish scratches like pencil marks does that mean it has lead in it
No
Oh no! I just bought white Corelle for ourselves and for my son’s family. I read in the posts and saw on the company’s video that the recycled part is from their own surplus of product that they re-use again. On the box it also says pre-consumer, it does not say post-consumer. I thought you (Tamara) were ok with the Corelle using their own product again…
So, we don’t know for sure about the recycled Corelle… I am suddenly very worried…