Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses

Physorg Medicine and Health ^ | November 22, 2010 | JUSTIN PRITCHARD , Associated Press

[LucyT]

The decorative enamel on the superhero and Oz sets - made in China and purchased at a Warner Brothers Studios store in Burbank - contained between 16 percent and 30.2 percent lead. The federal limit on children's products is 0.03 percent.

The same glasses also contained relatively high levels of the even-more-dangerous cadmium, though there are no federal limits on that toxic metal in design surfaces.

[LucyT]

In separate testing to recreate regular handling, other glasses shed small but notable amounts of lead or cadmium from their decorations. Federal regulators have worried that toxic metals rubbing onto children's hands can get into their mouths. Among the brands on those glasses: Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Burger King and McDonald's.

The Coca-Cola Co., which had been given AP's test results last week, announced Sunday evening that after retesting it was voluntarily recalling 88,000 glasses..."

[LucyT]

[The Cajun]

Looks like our “Trading Partners” in China dropped the ball again, shocked I tell you, shocked! (/sarcasm)

[AlexW]

Today, it is hard to tell how serious this is.
I think about the mercury scare, where a broken CFL now requires a hazmat team, when, as a children, we played with mercury all the time, rubbing coins in it, rolling little balls of it.
Of course we knew to never put it in our mouths, except by the dentist, haha.

That being said, I think my 66 year old mindset is far superior to that of the current red diaper doper babies that now pollute the USSA, once the great USA.

[Does so]

“Lead Crystal” glasses will leach lead into wine. :-\

[at bay]

Who lead us down this path? Insanity is doing the same importing container after garbage filled container over and over again and selling it to those for whom price is the only consideration.

[Smokin' Joe]

bump

[JACKRUSSELL]

A ping list dedicated to exposing the quality, safety and security issues of anything “Made in China”.


Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.

[Wolfie]

Hey, if you’re going to maximize profit, you gotta poison a few folks by importing from China. It’s just good business sense.

[goat granny]

Leaded crystal glassware is some of the most expensive in the world...Waterford leaded crystal has been around a couple of hundred years...I think to be called leaded crystal it has to have 20% lead....You don't eat crystal or glasses, you drink from them. Now if it has leaded paint on the outside that can chip off thats different, you are then ingesting lead...

[Daisyjane69]

I don’t purchase any object that involves direct preparing, serving, cooking, etc. food that originates from China. Period.

No spatulas & utensils, salt & pepper shakers, drinking glasses & coffee mugs, no pans, no appliances. If I don’t have something, and I desperately need it, I either go to the local second-hand store to find an older one, preferably American made or I try figure out how to do without it.

[bannie]

I try to never buy ANYTHING from China that touches my family or our food. Goodwill often has pans Made in the USA.

...but this has me thinking...I bet all of our water bottles are made in China. Damn!

[azishot]

Thanks, LucyT. Will be checking our vast collection of drinking glasses.

[Ellendra]

I have been through chelation therapy, avoiding heavy metals, however inconvenient it may seem sometimes, is DEFINITELY easier than going through the treatment to remove them!

It’s getting harder and harder to avoid things made in China. I have a small sewing shop and it can be darn near impossible sometimes to find affordable fabrics woven in the USA.

[GraceG]

[ “Lead Crystal” glasses will leach lead into wine. :-\ ]

But lead acetate is so very tasty and sweet....

[Lady Jag]

China doesn't have to put cadmium in things they sell to us.

[Vor Lady]

My tinfoil may be a little tight, but I’m convinced the Chinese, or at least their leaders, are trying to kill us. I have been trying to find reading glasses made anywhere but China but without success. If I wear the glasses for more than a couple of hours I get headaches and my eyes hurt; and yet my optomitrist tells me there is nothing wrong with my eyes.

[a fool in paradise]

The decorative enamel on the superhero and Oz sets - made in China and purchased at a Warner Brothers Studios store in Burbank - contained between 16 percent and 30.2 percent lead. The federal limit on children's products is 0.03 percent.

Seems like the fanboys were right to leave the products "mint" in the packaging.

[gunsequalfreedom]

So who is the buyer at Warner Bros that did not property inspect the product he was purchasing? It is not as if this is not a known issue. The buyer should lose his job.

The incompetence of many U.S. buyers buying goods out of China is astonishing to those that understand doing business there. It is common knowledge that a product rejected by a buyer from Europe or Australia will soon find a U.S. buyer willing to take it.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Who lead us down this path? Insanity is doing the same importing container after garbage filled container over and over again and selling it to those for whom price is the only consideration.

Exactly.