Re: Re: Cross post: Lead in Ceramic dishes

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Haleh,

thank you for pointing this out!!! Wow, what a shocker. I noticed at " Beyond Bed

and Bath " that there was a whole shelf of products with a warning label (state

of california....lead warning). They were all red glazed ceramic. One was a

container for dish soap, another a container for large cooking utensils, etc. I

had bought the matching style blue ceramic dish soap container a week earlier.

It tested OK, but I replaced it with an all glass one. I try to test everything

now. I am at least glad that the state of California has a labeling law...but

some stores just state at the entrance " products in this store may contain lead

levels etc " and that rather defeats the purpose!

Margaret

www.helpingdelayedkids.com tips that have worked for us

Cross post: Lead in Ceramic dishes

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> > Dear Listmates,

> > I am writing to let you know that some of the modern ceramic

> dishes have

> > lead glazes.

> > Last year I bought two set of such dishes at target to replace

> older

> > ceramic dishes (for safety concerns). A couple of days ago my

> son's

> > mineral and toxic elements from Metamatrix (blood test) came with

> lead

> > high in the red. After testing every thing suspicious at our

> house, The

> > dinnerware sets I had bought from Target last year tested

> positive for

> > lead. In other words, we have been eating low doses of lead for a

> little

> > over a year.

> >

> > I am posting this to urge all who use ceramic ware to test their

> dishes

> > for lead or to switch to clear glass. I do not want to worry

> you, but

> > better safe than sorry and I do feel really sorry to have

> (unknowingly)

> > exposed my family to lead.

> > I didn't test them because I was under the assumption that the

> use of

> > lead glazes in ceramics dishes had been long banned. Ironically

> the

> > older ceramic dishware tested negative but by now I am too

> paranoid to

> > use anything but glass.

> > Best,

> > Haleh

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