Polish dishes.
Small bowl: 99 ppm lead, 37 ppm Cadmium, 1175 ppm Chromium (non-detect for As & Hg)
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Pasta dish: 192 ppm lead, 22 ppm arsenic
(non-detect for Cr / Hg / Cd.)
Tested with an XRF in 2016.
These are within safe "range" for this sort of thing, and for decorative dishes they are ...
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Chateau Buffet Bowl, Made In USA
Chateau Buffet - USA made - 140,000 ppm lead!
The amount of lead in dishes is not specifically regulated (as a portion of content.) The thing that is regulated (in some areas) with newer items is the amount that leaches into food. If you have older dishes with high levels of lead, all bets are off. ...
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Target Home American Simplicity
Bowl from Target that I tested with a Niton XRF (same instrument used by the CPSC to test for toxicants): apprx 34,000 ppm lead on the inside & 21,000 ppm lead on the outside. For more information about my concern for lead in dishes... Check out this link: ...
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Our Thanksgiving Tradition: Music, History, Storytelling & Humor! Alice’s Restaurant – the song!
Every Thanksgiving with my mother (Helene), growing up in Hingham, Mass we would listen to Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant! Since we were from Massachusetts (and since it was the 1970s!!!) it felt like home, like our very own anthem! (I miss you mom!)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
They ...
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A friend shared this with me (meme)…
I just wanted to share this on my blog. I don't know the original source, but it seems totally appropriate!
[If you know the original source I would be happy to add that as a credit]
Happy Thanksgiving and may you have fun along your way even if things don't go as planned!
Tamara ...
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We keep a vegan home & I haven’t cooked a turkey in more than two decades, but here is what I would use IF I were going to cook a turkey!
For those new to this website:
Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). ...
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2017 (?) Blue Hydro Flask
Newer (2017?) Hydro Flask.
Tested in June of 2017.
Lead Free!
Newer Hydro Flasks (2017 and newer, based on what I have tested) seem to be consistently lead-free! In 2015/2016 Hydro Flask had offered to replace the older leaded products with a lead-free product, so it might be worth giving them a ...
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A Tale of Two Hydro Flasks: Leaded & Not!
Newer Green (Columbia) Hydro Flask:
#LeadFree!
Tested in August 2017
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Older Orange Hydro Flask (pre-2013), center sealing dot on bottom:
177,500 ppm Lead.
Good job on getting the Lead out, Hydro Flask!
For those new to this website:
Tamara Rubin is a ...
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Purple Hydro Flask Tested December 2015
Newer purple Hydro Flask. Bottom seal (center of bottom as tested through purple coating): 3,647 ppm lead & 1,013 ppm arsenic. Tested with an XRF instrument. The lead is on the outside and does not touch the contents of the bottle.
Note: other brands have no lead at all. This brand ...
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Black Hydro Flask, Purchased in 2014.
Black Hydro Flask, Purchased in 2014.
Bottom seal dot: 2,150 ppm lead; 15,900 ppm arsenic.
The lead is in the bottom "sealing dot" on the outside of the product (see center dot in bottom photo on this post) and does not touch the contents of the water bottle. The leaded sealing dot is usually ...
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Galvanized metal modern/ newer (2014) maple syrup bucket, marked “No Lead”: 405 ppm Lead (90 ppm is unsafe for kids)
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 consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were ...
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Vintage Ice Cream Scoop: 1,170 ppm Lead in the metal of the scoop. Context: 100 ppm (& up) is illegal in items made for use by kids.
Vintage ice cream scoop - 1,170 ppm lead (in the scoop.)
Here's my post with lead-free ice cream scoop choices!
For #SaferChoices for your family, click here.
To make a contribution in support of my independent consumer goods testing and lead poisoning prevention advocacy work, click here. ...
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I was really sad when (in 2014) I discovered that this antique maple syrup bucket was positive for 12,500 ppm Lead!
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 consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons ...
Read More about I was really sad when (in 2014) I discovered that this antique maple syrup bucket was positive for 12,500 ppm Lead!
#Leaded: Memory Lane Plate, c. 1970
Memory Lane plate: 51,200 ppm lead.
Vintage - 1970s.
Read more about testing dishes here.
To see the #LeadFree dishes I use in my home, click here.
For more #SaferChoices for your family, click here.
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