In an April 2015 interview, Rubin shared more stories about lead lurking in innocuous items:įor my readers, the biggest “surprises” were the Beatrix Potter Benjamin Bunny Wedgewood China baby cups – which tested between 20,000 and 75,000 parts per million lead (baby cups, for Pete’s sake!) and then of course, readers have been outraged by the vintage Pyrex – which has tested positive with levels as high as 200,000 ppm lead and higher. Rubin’s claims about lurking lead dangers did not revolve solely around Pyrex. Ikea has lead-free dishes and cookware (& they don’t pay me to tell you that!) our donate button: – Each $5 raised helps us to help at least one family. No lead is safe, we shouldn’t have lead in our cookware. Please share this one & if you appreciate what I do – pretty please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help me continue to help families everywhere. Vintage Pyrex casserole pot (y’all have been asking about this for a long time! It’s the newest addition to my collection of toxic stuff!!!) drumroll please: white glass: 175 ppm lead, green paint: 61,900 ppm lead, white floral design 110,000 ppm lead. The post had no information about testing methodology: In a 19 June 2014 Facebook post, the documentary’s page shared purported lead testing results for a Pyrex casserole from the “Spring Blossom” collection. The source of most social media claims appeared to be the Tamara Rubin documentary about childhood lead poisoning. If you child touches the dish as it’s being passed around the table and gets lead on their hands and then puts their hands in their mouth, they’ve just ingested lead. If you carry the dish to the table and a micro amount of lead comes off on your hands and then you turn around and start preparing your child’s food, you’re spreading that contamination. All of these actions will release a microscopic amount of lead from the paint that can contaminate your environment. Every time you run it through the dishwasher. Every time you stack it inside another dish. The problem is, that if lead is coming off onto a Lead Check Swab, that means it IS rubbing off – in small, even microscopic (but still dangerous) amounts – and it becomes available to be transferred to your mouth, eyes, or even your child’s food or body.Įven though you can’t see it….Every time you touch it. People insisted that since food doesn’t come in contact with the outside of the bowls, these tests do nothing more than drum up fear. The author lamented that she could not in good conscience tell readers their vintage Pyrex was still safe to use, listing off the myriad ways in which lead could purportedly come into contact with food, and implying that vintage Pyrex differs from its modern counterpart: The problem is that you won’t know once you’ve reached the point where your bowl or dish is leaching lead. It is also probable that using the glass with highly acidic foods or using glass that is scratched may release some of the lead contained in the glass. The lead in milk glass is probably inert, however, no lab tests are currently being done on these vintage pieces. The milk glass interiors, classic to most vintage Pyrex and Anchor Hocking pieces, commonly contain lead as well. In the Facebook post that ignited a firestorm, she shows an image of a 3M Lead Check Swab after being used to test the outside of a Pyrex bowl. She frequently tests items that are brought into their headquarters in Portland, OR. Tamara Rubin, the director and producer of the forthcoming documentary, MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic is also the director of the Lead Safe America Foundation. The piece reported that lead could contaminate food from both in and outside the popular dishes (often heirlooms), citing a documentary about a “secret epidemic” of lead in household items: (Pyrex had previously been the subject of rumors about spontaneous shattering thanks to manufacturing cuts.) On 30 November 2016, the Facebook page “Punk Rock Homesteading” shared a report that vintage Pyrex dishes contain unsafe levels of lead. The linked article was published by Creative Green Living in October 2015, and strongly discouraged the use of vintage Pyrex due to a purported issue with high lead content.
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