Bike lock key: 4,587 ppm lead.
The current amount of lead that is considered toxic in an item intended for children is anything over 90 ppm lead. Items intended for adults (including dishware and keys) are generally unregulated for total lead content as they are not designed or sold as intended for ...
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Typical American house key #2 – silver finish: 10,700 ppm Lead. 90 ppm Lead (& up) is illegal in items intended for use by kids.
The house key pictured tested positive for 10,700 ppm Lead.
How much Lead is too much Lead?
The current amount of lead that is considered toxic in an item intended for children is anything over 90 ppm lead in the paint or coating and anything 100 ppm Lead (and up) in the substrate. Items ...
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Typical American house key: 12,800 ppm Lead. 90 ppm is unsafe. Don’t let kids (especially babies) play with real keys!
When tested with an XRF instrument, this typical American house door key
had the following reading: 12,800 ppm Lead
How much Lead is "too much" Lead?
The current amount of Lead that is considered toxic (and illegal) in an item "intended for use by children" is anything over 90 ppm Lead in the ...
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#Leaded: Black Sunbeam Crock-Pot Brand Ceramic Liner
Sunbeam Products Crock-Pot: Black inside of ceramic liner 81 ppm lead.
Bare ceramic edge on bottom: 158 ppm lead
Non detect for cadmium, mercury, arsenic.
#XRFTesting
Tested with an XRF
If you have to use a crock pot or slow cooker I recommend this one, because it has a stainless steel liner ...
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#LeadedCrocks: Tru Crock Black Glazed Ceramic Liner
TRU crockpot set, ceramic liner 135 ppm lead
#XRFTesting
Tested with an XRF
For lead-free slow-cooker options click here. ...
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#LeadedCrocks: White Rival Liner
Rival Crock Pot liner: 135 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.
#XRFTesting
Tested with an XRF
For lead-free slow-cooker options click here. ...
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#LeadFree Crockpot!
c. 2013 Crock Pot brand crockpot - ceramic liner...COMPLETELY LEAD FREE!
#XRFTesting
Tested with an XRF
For lead-free slow-cooker options click here. ...
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#LeadedCrocks; Sunbeam 2
Crockpot liner - Sunbeam - 98 ppm lead.
This is considered to be in the "safe" range by most standards (but still positive for lead!)
#XRFTesting
Tested with an XRF
For lead-free slow-cooker options click here. ...
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#LeadedCrocks: Sunbeam Black Ceramic Crockpot Liner
c. 2004 year old crockpot liner, Sunbeam: 360 ppm lead.
#XRFTesting
Tested with an XRF
For lead-free slow-cooker options click here.
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#LeadedCrocks: Crockpot Liner, Brand Unknown
Crock pot (brand unknown) 52 ppm lead (probably safe).
Please see the pics of other crockpots that I have tested for more information. The toxicity level for an item intended for children is 90 ppm lead. Anything under 90 ppm lead is consider safe - also by European standards. So while it is ...
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#LeadedCrocks: Ceramic Rival CrockPot Liner
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 ...
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#SaferChoices: How to choose a Lead-free tea kettle
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 ...
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Kleynimals stainless steel toys keys – a great alternative for babies who just have to play with real metal keys!
Originally published: January 8, 2017
Updated: January 11, 2020
As we have discussed quite often on my Facebook page, house keys often have very high levels of lead. Unfortunately children are inexplicably drawn to playing with your keys!
While letting babies play with metal things that they ...
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Small Le Creuset ceramic custard cup: 131 ppm Lead + 67 ppm Arsenic.
Small newer Le Creuset ceramic pot (custard cup?): Both outside and inside tested positive for lead in the 118 to 131 ppm range ppm. The red outside also tested positive for arsenic at 67 ppm.
(Lollipop included to show size.) Newer (exact age unknown).
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This item (since it was newer & ...
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