Garfield “Use Your Friends Wisely” McDonald’s mug: 103,600 ppm Lead (causes brain damage) + 7,314 ppm Cadmium (causes cancer).
Handmade ceramic mug with white, blue & brown glaze: 39 ppm Lead in the substrate & 23 ppm on the food surface (safe by all standards).
Vintage Orange Hazel Atlas Milk Glass Mug: 24,100 ppm Lead + 1,546 ppm Cadmium + 39 ppm Mercury. Cadmium causes cancer. Lead is toxic at 90 ppm & up.
Vintage Yellow Corelle Milk Glass Mug: 154,100 ppm Lead + 14,200 ppm Cadmium + 9,582 ppm Arsenic. Cadmium causes cancer. Lead is toxic at 90 ppm & up.
February 2020 Shutterfly mug with red interior: 174 ppm Lead + 569 ppm Cadmium. Cadmium is known to cause cancer.
2018 Chicago Christkindlmarket Kinder Club commemorative cocoa mug: 19,700 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe for kids.]
2004 Laurel Burch Ceramic Mug by Wine Things of Sonoma: as high as 18,600 ppm Lead (834 ppm Lead on the inside.)
How toxic is YOUR 2019 Starbucks Christmas mug? This one has 1,037 ppm Cadmium – a carcinogen (>40 ppm is illegal*)
