Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s affiliate link for this product:
https://shrsl.com/4cig6

We’re thrilled to share with you (Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s readers and community members) that we invited Ahimsa to become an affiliated partner of Lead Safe Mama, LLC.

Ahimsa is only our THIRD official affiliate corporate partner (joining Solidteknics and Naturepedic in supporting our work). We have very strict guidelines for who we invite to collaborate in this way, which is why — since our founding as an independent LLC (in January of 2018) — we have only invited three manufacturers to officially join us as affiliate partners! We invited Ahimsa to become an affiliate partner this month only after extensively testing all of their stainless steel products (all three types of finish — blue, classic, and rainbow — on their stainless children’s dishes) and determining that their products meet the strictest standards* for items intended for use by children (and all humans!).

*Here at Lead Safe Mama, LLC, rather than simply being satisfied with any product manufacturer’s claims that their offerings meet current relevant regulatory standards (or claims that their product is “non-toxic” or “safe”), we conduct independent XRF testing capable of detecting and quantifying the presence (i.e. actual “total content” — down to single digit parts per million, or ppm) of any Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and/or Arsenic. 

All Ahimsa’s children’s dishes (we tested all three color variants — plain stainless, blue, and rainbow) tested negative for Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic, Mercury, and Antimony using XRF technology. As a result, we feel these stainless dishes are a great option for children’s dishes — especially given nearly all of the silicone options available for children’s dishes that we have tested have been positive for “trace”* levels of Cadmium (a known carcinogen). *Note: “Trace” in this case means levels typically in the range of 15 to 40 ppm Cadmium, which is considered “safe by all current relevant standards,” but is not negative.

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DISCOUNT CODE!

In collaborating with Ahimsa, we are thrilled to share that they are offering a discount of 15% for Lead Safe Mama readers when you start any shopping on their site with our affiliate link (https://shrsl.com/4cig6) and use the code “LeadSafeMama” upon checkout.

When you shop at Ahimsa using the Lead Safe Mama affiliate link (and making the purchase directly through their website, not via Amazon) they will also contribute 18% of what you spend back to Lead Safe Mama, LLC in support of our programs for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Consumer Goods Safety, making it possible for us to continue our work bringing free consumer goods testing and outreach events to communities across the United States and beyond.

Thank you so much for supporting our work in this way — and for supporting a company doing their best to make safer products for children. Without further ado, below are the full test results for the “Classic” set of Ahimsa stainless dishes pictured (we are publishing three articles — one for each of their three finishes — with full XRF test results). You will be able to find all three articles by clicking this link once they are all published.

Thank you so much to Ahimsa for partnering in supporting the Lead Safe Mama worldwide community in this way!

Note: My children are older now (15, 18, 21, and 27!) so I do want to confirm that while my kids did really love trying these dishes out, these dishes are really sized for young kids’ smaller hands (although the dish and bowl are still perfect for bigger picky eaters — especially kiddos like mine with Autism, or other similar diagnoses, including Sensory Processing Disorder/SPD who prefer to keep their food-types separate)! My youngest two (Charlie and Avi) especially liked the feel and slick finish of these dishes — specifically, the way the fork and spoon feel… even though they were a bit small for my giant man-sized teenagers!

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Below are the full XRF tests for the dishes pictured in this article

Reading #1) Food Surface of the “Classic” Plate
Stainless Steel #304 (also known as 18/8 Stainless)

• Lead (Pb): negative / non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): negative / non-detect
• Arsenic (As): negative / non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): negative / non-detect
• Antimony (Sb): negative / non-detect
• Titanium (Ti): 709 +/- 395 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 1,455 +/- 349 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 177,500 +/- 1,400 ppm (about 18%)
• Manganese (Mn): 16,200 +/- 1,100 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 714,300 +/- 2,400 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 80,100 +/- 1,600 ppm (about 8%)

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Reading #2) The “Classic” Bowl
Stainless Steel #304 (also known as 18/8 Stainless)

• Lead (Pb): negative / non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): negative / non-detect
• Arsenic (As): negative / non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): negative / non-detect
• Antimony (Sb): negative / non-detect
• Titanium (Ti): 727 +/- 445 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 1,123 +/- 377 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 180,900 +/- 1,600 ppm (about 18%)
• Manganese (Mn): 16,700 +/- 1,200 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 709,700 +/- 2,800 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 78,500 +/- 1,700 ppm (about 8%)

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Reading #3) The “Classic” Fork
Stainless Steel #304 (also known as 18/8 Stainless)

• Lead (Pb): negative / non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): negative / non-detect
• Arsenic (As): negative / non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): negative / non-detect
• Antimony (Sb): negative / non-detect
• Titanium (Ti): negative / non-detect
• Vanadium (V): 1,655 +/- 408 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 175,500 +/- 1,600 ppm (about 18%)
• Manganese (Mn): 11,400 +/- 1,200 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 726,000 +/- 2,700 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 79,700 +/- 1,700 ppm (about 8%)

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Reading #4) The “Classic” Spoon
Stainless Steel #304 (also known as 18/8 Stainless)

• Lead (Pb): negative / non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): negative / non-detect
• Arsenic (As): negative / non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): negative / non-detect
• Antimony (Sb): negative / non-detect
• Titanium (Ti): negative / non-detect
• Vanadium (V): 1,525 +/- 386 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 176,200 +/- 1,600 ppm (about 18%)
• Manganese (Mn): 11,300 +/- 1,200 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 724,900 +/- 2,800 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 80,700 +/- 1,700 ppm (about 8%)

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Reading #5) The “Classic” Cup
Stainless Steel #304 (also known as 18/8 Stainless)

• Lead (Pb): negative / non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): negative / non-detect
• Arsenic (As): negative / non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): negative / non-detect
• Antimony (Sb): negative / non-detect
• Titanium (Ti): negative / non-detect
• Vanadium (V): 1,197 +/- 376 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 179,800 +/- 1,600 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 17,600 +/- 1,300 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 710,500 +/- 2,800 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 80,200 +/- 1,700 ppm

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Some additional reading for those interested in this topic:

1. What is Stainless Steel?
2. Why is there a Prop 65 warning on some Stainless Steel items?
3. More Lead Safe Mama, LLC articles with test results for Stainless Steel items
4. More information about the type of testing we do at Lead Safe Mama, LLC
5. More information about the Lead Safe Mama, LLC business model
6. Q. Why we do the testing we do (because you cannot do this type of testing yourself at home)
7. How to make a contribution in support of the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC

Thank you for reading! 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.

Tamara Elise Rubin
Owner — Lead Safe Mama, LLC

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