XRF Testing

Vintage Temporama dinner plate: 81,600 ppm Lead. For context: 90 ppm and up is unsafe in items intended for use by kids.

Unmarked vintage floral print saucer: 70,800 ppm Lead. For context: 90 ppm and up is unsafe in items intended for use by kids.

Corelle® recommends using their pre-2005 dishes as “decorative pieces” due to concerns of high Lead levels

Stop using your vintage Tupperware NOW. These measuring cups are positive for 2,103 ppm Lead + 250 ppm Arsenic.

At 351,400 ppm Lead, this glass is likely the source of a boy’s mysterious poisoning. 90 ppm+ is illegal in kids’ items.

Vintage Corelle Butterfly Gold glass plate: 18,700 ppm Lead on decorative pattern when tested with an XRF instrument

Vintage (1972-1988) Corning Spice-o-Life Casserole: 26,500 ppm Lead (90 ppm is unsafe) & 236 ppm Cd (75 is unsafe)

Vintage Tupperware ORANGE bowl: 3,380 ppm Cadmium + 935 ppm Mercury (both are extremely poisonous to humans)

Vintage Corelle Plate With Crazy Daisy Spring Blossom Green Edge: 15,200 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + Cadmium

#AskTamara: Which dishes are Lead-free? Pioneer Woman? Wedgwood? Franciscan? Blue Willow? Fiestaware? Heath?

Pyrex® Glass Measuring cup (c. 1994): 6,253 ppm Lead in red Outside Markings (90 ppm is unsafe for kids)

Textbook corporate response from Corning 12/28/18 – to the findings of high levels of Lead in their vintage products.

Vintage Corelle By Corning Butterfly Gold Pattern Glass Bowls: 23,300 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe for kids.]

Vintage Pyrex Spring Blossom Green Crazy Daisy Mixing Bowls: 109,900 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe) + Cadmium, too!

Purple Pyrex glass measuring cup: 20,700 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe*) +175 ppm Cadmium (Yum! What are you baking with?)

Syracuse large cereal bowls – nicked from a college cafeteria c. 2002: 31,900 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe for kids.]

How much poison is on your Christmas tree? Mercury glass tree topper: 207 ppm Lead + 462 ppm Arsenic. Don’t break it!

Greenbrier International “Christmas Pickle” (Dollar Tree store; Made in China ): 45 ppm Lead (safe by all standards)

The Beatles Yellow Submarine pin: 447,400 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe for kids] + 6.766 ppm Cadmium (a carcinogen)

Pure Down natural goose down feather pillow with white cotton case: 75 ppm Antimony in the brown piping.

Bennington Potters blue glazed ceramic coffee mug: LEAD FREE! Really great gift choice! $31.00 (including shipping).

A lovely inexpensive natural non-toxic gift idea – olive wood bowl from Trader Joe’s: Lead-free & only $5.99!

Terrifying tiny pewter piggy: 16,700 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + 80,900 ppm Antimony (causes cancer in rats.)

This vintage Corelle dish with a basket and flowers is 2,406 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids). Which Corelle pattern do you have?