Tested for a Lead Safe Mama Instagram follower, Franciscan “Picnic” pattern dish, Made in USA: 108,300 ppm Lead on surface (not safe for use with food)
Blue and silver Franciscan Twilight pattern dish: 304,000 ppm (30%!) Lead on the blue glazed food surface of the dish.
Vintage Starburst pattern dishes: 83,000 ppm Lead. All Franciscan pieces are high Lead and I do not consider them food-safe!
Hand Painted Raffia Vernonware – Made in California: 93,900 ppm Lead in the glaze. 90 ppm is unsafe for kids.
Shallow Heath Potteries Bowl (Sausalito, CA): 125,000 ppm Lead. For context: 90 ppm is unsafe in children’s items.
Do Franciscan Potteries vintage dishes have unsafe levels of lead? Does Mexican pottery that is marked lead-free have unsafe levels of lead? (video)
Franciscan Desert Rose Earthenware China – c. 1941, Made in USA: 122,200 ppm Lead! [90 ppm is unsafe in kids’ items.]
