Recently Purchased Anfora Pottery Barn Puebla Pattern Dish – Made in Mexico: 15,500 ppm Lead on the food surface.
Vintage Stangl Hand Painted Apple Delight Pattern Dish (Trenton, New Jersey): 205,600 ppm Lead + 4,502 Antimony
Vintage Stangl Hand Painted Country Garden Pattern (Trenton, New Jersey): 133,000 ppm Lead + 208 ppm Antimony.
Folks are surprised when I say that relatively modern toys from their youth may not be safe for kids. This 1992 toy is painted with Leaded paint.
But is this dish or toy or lamp or vitamin or piece of jewelry (or Tibetan brass singing bowl!) ACTUALLY going to poison me? And how would that happen exactly?
Paint-It-Yourself Pottery (2006) ice cream: 139,100 ppm Lead (90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids). The shop owner had said the glazes were “Lead-free”.
