Warning (Summer 2021): Stop using NUK brand glass baby bottles until further notice — Lead paint found in exterior decorations.
Recently Purchased (June 2021) 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 relatively modern toys from their youth may not be safe for kids. This 1992 toy is painted with Leaded paint.
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”.
Optimum “Lead Free” Home Plate Woodbury ceramic pitcher “Made in Japan”: As advertised — ACTUALLY Lead-Free!
Cuisine Trend Porzellan white ceramic custard cup: 20,800 ppm Lead in the black logo on the bottom of the cup
Greenwood — Made in Staffordshire England — Hand Decorated Ironstone: 73,100 ppm Lead. 90 ppm (& up) is unsafe, most Ironstone has unsafe levels of Lead
Cream-colored Corelle dish with birdhouses & planters: 303 ppm Cadmium (a known carcinogen) in the painted design
Square Corelle dish with green leaf design: 291 ppm Cadmium. Total Cadmium-content in dishware is not regulated.
Corelle dish with blue and green floral pattern: 26,800 ppm Lead (90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids) + 127 ppm Cadmium
Corelle dish with lighthouse pattern: 351 ppm Cadmium on the food surface (40 and up is considered toxic for children)
Stan Pac Longmont (Colorado) Dairy Farm Reusable Glass Milk Bottle: 38,500 ppm Lead in the black paint.
Amitié Lane Child’s bracelet from a music box set sold on Amazon: 320,500 ppm Cadmium! (Over 40 ppm is unsafe for kids)
Wedgwood Queen’s Ware (c. 2005-2007) Penshur Street Place Kent “Romantic England”: 59,800 ppm Lead on the food surface