Beautiful etched green crystal goblet: 374,100 ppm Lead (this is not illegal, but for context, 90 ppm & up is illegal for items made for kids)

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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 four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).


In the interest of publishing quite a few test results quickly, we will be updating this article with more information shortly. As of 2011, anything over 90 ppm Lead is considered unsafe and illegal in items intended for use by children. Dishes are not considered to be items intended for use by children (on a U.S. federal level) so this level of Lead on the food (or beverage) contact component of a food-use item is not illegal. There are no laws protecting adults from total Lead content concerns in dishware (there are only leach-testing considerations for newly-manufactured dishes, and those legislative initiatives only apply to the dishes when they are newly-manufactured and in new condition). Dishes with any amount of Lead content may leach Lead over time with regular use and wear (especially when used with acidic foods and beverages: Coffee, tea, wine, alcohol, juice, vinegar, lemon, tomato sauce, etc).

60-second reading (repeated multiple times to confirm results)
on the green part of the goblet

  • Lead (Pb): 374,100 +/- 34,000 ppm
  • Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
  • Mercury (Hg): non-detect
  • Bromine (Br): 449 +/- 72 ppm
  • Chromium (Cr): 9,553 +/- 1,380
  • Copper (Cu): 19,000 +/- 1,700
  • Zinc (Zn): 7,858 +/- 742 ppm
  • Zirconium (Zr): 247 +/- 76 ppm
  • Molybdenum (Mo): 542 +/- 179 ppm
  • Barium (Ba): 23,700 +/- 3,300 ppm
  • No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

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