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Vintage Yellow Corelle Milk Glass Mug: 154,100 ppm Lead + 14,200 ppm Cadmium + 9,582 ppm Arsenic (Cadmium causes cancer while Lead is toxic at 90 ppm and up)

Red Plastic (2020) Aldi Christmas Ornament Ball: Positive for Lead + Cadmium + Arsenic (51,700 ppm!!!) + Antimony!

Val Dol Sol (Made in Portugal) orange glazed ceramic mug: 19,000 ppm Lead (Please do not use ceramics from Portugal for food-use in the absence of independent testing!)

Vintage green glass goblet (with W mark in oval): 371 ppm Lead + 14 ppm Antimony (an exception to the loose “rule” that press lines often mean Lead-free)

Vintage Inox Stainless Steel (304) fork with floral pattern: Non-detect for Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic

Ceramic teapot lid, no mark or maker noted (vintage): 39 ppm Lead in glaze (safe by all standards)

Villeroy & Boch, Luxembourg, GEO (pattern?) white ceramic saucer: 15 ppm Lead on food surface (safe by all standards)

Today’s Amazon deal! A set of TEN Lead-free mixing & prep bowls for just $22.49!

Vintage Shiny Brite (Made in USA or possibly West Germany!) Christmas ornament — blue with white stars: 175,500 ppm Lead (90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids)

Vintage violin tuner/ pitch pipe, Made in Czechoslovakia: 4,201 ppm Lead + 1,316 ppm Cadmium on the mouthpiece end

Every grandmother’s cheese slicer (apparently! #AmIRight?): 4,159 ppm Lead… Was this on your holiday table?

My Boys Standing in “that spot in the kitchen” over the years. I am going to find all the years of this photo and share them here!

Preliminary XRF test results for a second sample of Black Oxygen Organics (BOO) Fulvic Acid: Lot #210614, expires 05/2024.

Vintage composite “wood look” American Tempo Stainless (Made in Japan) cutlery: As high as as 13,700 ppm Lead in the “wood” of the handle

Zinc and Copper-based decorative measuring spoons that LOOK toxic, but are not!

Mikasa Trellis Bone China Serving Bowl: 1,508 ppm Lead in the logo on the back + 187 ppm Lead on the food surface of the dish

Moogco Sterling Silver Protective Nursing Cups: very pure Silver (938,000 ppm Silver!) Did you know that historically these were made of LEAD?!

Vintage Satin-Sheen Pyramid Brand Decorative Glass Christmas Ornaments (bell-shaped with iridescent glass): 16 ppm Lead + 25 ppm Cadmium (safe levels by all standards)

Flying Lady #, vintage pink Flying Lady golf balls by Spalding: 17 ppm Lead (safe by all standards)

My child’s Lead test came back as “< 2 ," what does that mean? Is my child poisoned?

Please stop using vintage Pyrex glassware for cooking & serving food — it’s often coated with high-Lead paint & can test positive for Cadmium, Arsenic

A letter to Facebook discussing the impact of health-related content censorship implemented with the pandemic

November 2021: Best month in 2021 here at LeadSafeMama.com, thank you! (Plus… the top 12 articles of November 2021!)

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