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Vintage Rival Crock-Pot Stoneware Slow Cooker: 180 ppm Lead in the food surface + 14,000 ppm Lead in the power cord.

Vintage Rival Crock-Pot Stoneware Slow Cooker: 180 ppm Lead in the food surface + 14,000 ppm Lead in the power cord.

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Published: Sunday – June 28, 2020 When tested with a high-precision XRF instrument in “Consumer Goods” mode, the vintage Rival Crock-Pot Stoneware Slow Cooker with brown glaze pictured above had the readings listed below. Introduction: Tamara Rubin is an independent advocate for consumer goods safety, and she is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She…

#LeadSafe: Rival Brand Crock Pot Ceramic Liner

#LeadSafe: Rival Brand Crock Pot Ceramic Liner

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This Rival brand Crock-Pot stoneware / ceramic liner was positive for lead at 37 parts per million (ppm). [Tested in 2014, exact year of manufacture unknown.]. This is a level that is considered safe by all standards (United States and European.) It has also likely been leach-tested.  That said I would personally not be comfortable…

#LeadedCrocks: Ceramic Rival CrockPot Liner

#LeadedCrocks: Ceramic Rival CrockPot Liner

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Rival crockpot black glazed ceramic liner:  119 ppm lead Suggestion – stainless cookers. All of the modern crockpots I have tested – like this one (with a few exceptions) have trace levels of lead. This is lead at a “contamination level” – not an “additive level” – meaning – they are not likely adding lead…