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Sterling silver wedding band style ring: 938,700 ppm Silver & 52,000 ppm Copper (+ Tin, Vanadium & Barium.)

March 7, 2022December 3, 2023

XRF test results for the ring pictured. This is a really good example of typical total metals content for 925-marked modern Sterling Silver. The two main ingredients in modern Sterling are Silver [usually at least 925,000 ppm — hence the “925” mark, which translates to 92.5% of the total make up of metals for the item],…

Paparazzi “stone” ring: Lead-free & “Nickel-free”, as advertised…BUT: 265,300 ppm CADMIUM! Cadmium causes cancer.

January 7, 2020January 4, 2022

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Published: January 7, 2020 Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is an independent advocate for consumer goods safety. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009 and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. Tamara uses…

Gold wedding set (c. 2016): 5,527 ppm Mercury, 1,214 ppm Arsenic (+ Gold, Silver, Titanium & Copper).

January 14, 2017December 7, 2023

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Originally written January 14, 2017 Updated (extensively!) February 17, 2020 This is an ad-free article. To make a contribution to help us keep our most widely-read articles ad-free, click here. Thank you. 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…

2003 Gold Balfour “Class Ring”: 9,927 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe). It also tested positive for Lead with a home test kit.

January 14, 2017March 4, 2020

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Can gold rings have Lead? —The answer is, “yes!” When tested with a a high-precision XRF instrument (in “Consumer Goods Mode”), this 2003 graduating class ring [from Texas A&M University] had the following readings: 9,927 ppm Lead 417,000 ppm Gold Update: I just learned that the Texas A&M class rings have historically been manufactured…