Mexican bean pots with up to 30 times the level of lead permitted by federal guidelines have been pulled from the shelves of a local food chain after a health inspector found one in a Concord home and tested it in a county lab.<<<<
At least 50 years ago, in California/San Diego, we were warned to not use the colorful dishes from Mexico for food, then the worst offender was the juice glasses and pitcher were the most dangerous, for the acid in the orange juice, leached out even more lead.
It is/was also in the paint on the plates.
Maybe that is when I became aware that imports were dangerous to our health.
It is scary, when you realize that many of those bean pots are in homes that will never hear of the recall on them..
Yes, those bean pots are just outrageous, and yes, I do remember those stories from the 1970s about the lead-laden Mexican pottery - although I seem to recall that there were also problems with ceramicware from a number of countries.
I’ve been reading your postings, now & again, for many years, ever since before THESE survival/cooking/crafts/etc threads of yours — I was even lurking at the Threat Matrix set of threads when YOU started posting to it. LOL
When I heard about that Afghani terror suspect having had a food cart in NYC, I instantly remembered all the New Jersey posters to the TM who’d mention all the vendors with their carts outside of Grand Central Station, I thought it was really amazing, as they were making humorous comments at the time, it was a “Thread Joke,” almost.
I read something this morning that might interest you, something I simply did NOT realize.
Under some article about the safe storage of water, they cautioned to never use old glass jars & jugs — but not just because they break, but rather the reason old jars are so unsafe for food and/or water storage is that some of them contain extremely high levels of lead which leaches into the food.
I was totally unaware of that.