For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:
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).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for five product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
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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 items intended for use by children (on a U.S. federal level), so this level of Lead on the food surface of a dish is not illegal. These dishes are not safe for use with food.
Reading on the center of the food surface
60-second test (repeated multiple times to confirm results)
- Lead (Pb): 399,700 +/- 28,000 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): 340 +/- 166 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 680 +/- 453 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 1,898 +/- 1,209 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,282 +/- 296 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 406 +/- 262 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 12,600 +/- 900 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 3,265 +/- 1,895 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 278 +/- 133 ppm
- No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.
How old is this plateware?
1963-1979. It has gold in the trim. Nothing was lead safe back then. Feel like the dates the china was made should be included.
I include the information when I have it – as noted this article will be updated shortly.