Yes it's hard for some of us to believe that 1980 was 37 years ago! And that 1980 is considered vintage - but let's set that aside for a moment. :-)
Each of these items is positive for lead and/or cadmium. Some at very low levels and others at high levels. Because there are so many elements in ...
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Vintage Miniature Tea Set (Made in Taiwan): 14,200 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) & Cadmiu (which causes cancer!)
Miniature Vintage Ceramic Tea Set. Made in Taiwan.
Platter: 66 +/- 20 ppm Lead (Pb).
Coffee Pot: 777 +/- 53 ppm Lead (Pb) & 18 +/- 8 ppm Cadmium (Cd).
Tiny Creamer: 14,200 +/- 500 ppm Lead (Pb) & 42 +/- 11 ppm Cadmium (Cd).
Tiny Teacup: 3,280 +/- 124 ppm ...
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Vintage 1980 Fisher Price Quaker Oats Toy Radio: 2,110 ppm Lead, 108 ppm Cadmium, 204 ppm Arsenic.
1980 Fisher Price toy plastic radio with wind up music box.
When tested with an XRF instrument this musical toy had the following readings:
Yellow plastic components:
2,087 +/- 55 ppm lead
20 +/- 10 ppm cadmium
204 +/- 37 ppm arsenic
White plastic components:
58 +/- 10 ppm ...
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#LeadFree: Stainless Steel Pan, Brand Unknown
Stainless steel pan. Brand unknown.
Non-Detect (ND/ Negative) for lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury.
All components tested with an XRF instrument.
For those who are interested in stainless steel, this is SS #304 in all components that are metal. The make up of this SS #304 is 186,400 ppm ...
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#LeadFree: Noritake Stoneware Madera Ivory Plate
Noritake Stoneware, Made in Indonesia, Madera Ivory plate.
ND (negative/ non-detect) for lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium.
Tested with an XRF instrument.
Please note: most vintage/ older Noritake I have tested has been positive for unsafe levels of lead. This is a newer dish. I will add the ...
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#Leaded: Vintage Vinyl, 1956 “Mercury” Records, Lola Dee & Rusty Draper
Vintage 1956 vinyl record.
186 +/- 33 ppm lead (Pb) & 23 +/- 14 ppm cadmium (Cd).
Non-Detect for Mercury (Hg) and Arsenic (As).
Tested with an XRF instrument.
Thanks to Bethany Gunter for donating and supporting my advocacy!
Each donation helps make a new post possible!
For ...
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#Leaded (Unexpectedly!) Magnet Stick & Ball Toy
This is a yard sale find toy, so the year and brand are not known. Important to note there are two different types of metal balls in this set.
The balls are not magnetic (only the sticks are magnetic.)
The grayish/dull metal balls are lead-free.
The plastic sticks with magnets on each ...
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Check out this very well written article on the surprising danger of Bentonite Clay
Here's a quote pulled from the article linked below:
"Many have shared how bentonite clay has helped their digestion or skin symptoms. The reasons why it may have helped seemed plausible to me, and I don’t doubt that many have had positive experiences. Since I’ve never seen much research either ...
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Friends have asked if they could get my boys something for the holidays…
December 9, 2017
Many friends have asked if they could get my boys something this holiday season.
We have no resources right now (as a result of my mounting legal fees and the amount of time I have had to dedicate to these attacks over the past 18 months), so my response this year is "yes— I ...
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New (2017) Brass Chanukah Menorah – Made in India: 36,000 ppm Lead. 90 ppm Lead (& up) is unsafe for kids.
This post is a Chanukah menorah buying guide (of sorts!), check out the lead-free options and please read about the concerns for leaded brass in general.
This is a new brass menorah purchased in 2017 at New Season Market in Portland, Oregon. Made in India by Biedermann & Sons.
To see ...
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My response to The Salt’s article on lead in crock pots.
Dear NPR/ The Salt / @NPRFood & Natalie Jacewicz,
Please make this correction on your crockpot article dated 12/8/2017:
YOU CANNOT use a home lead test kit to test a mass manufactured crock pot for lead. The limit of detection (low threshold) in the home kits is 600 ppm lead and the amount ...
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Thank you (again) Earth Mama Angel Baby!
Readers: This post is NOT paid or sponsored in any way — I just LOVE this product!
Dear Earth Mama Angel Baby,
Thank you!
I love you! You guys are miracle workers!
When you told me I had the chance to get a sample packet of your latest new products to try (and I already love your ...
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#Leaded: 1970 Dapper Dan Teaching Doll
Introduction (for those new to this website):
Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF ...
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BluesBand Hohner International New Harmonica: Positive for 455 ppm Mercury & 146 ppm Arsenic!
#LeadFree
New 2017 BluesBand, Hohner International Harmonica.
Tested with an XRF instrument.
Most of the components of this instrument are free of heavy metals, however, the small bronze/ yellow colored square elements with scalloped edges (see close up photo above) had the following readings ...
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