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.

[gunsequalfreedom]

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.

Except for drill and a few other fabric types, clothes made in China are not made with material made in China. Most of the material for clothes is imported from other countries.

What would be a real source of concern would be food products made in China.

Just as was happening in the U.S. back in the 80's, tanker trucks that were delivering liquid food products to U.S. food processing factories had carried an industrial chemical on their prior haul. Washing out the truck did not get all the chemical containment. China still has not dealt with that issue.

[SunkenCiv]

made in China. Thanks LucyT.

[Smokin' Joe]

Just in case you haven’t seen this....ping....

[Mears]

Awful,just awful.

All merchandise from China is s*** !!!!!

[Quix]

THX

[little jeremiah]

Makes me glad we drink of out mason jars in my house.

I try as much as possible to buy nothing from China.

Thrift stores are good places to get cups, glasses and other like stuff made in the US or Japan. Nice, safe eating and drinking ware.

[GOPJ]

You’re right about the food issues... This is one of the few things I hold against Walmart. Too many foods canned in strange places...

[Gene Eric]

Thanks for the ping.

>> contained between 16 percent and 30.2 percent lead. The federal limit on children’s products is 0.03 percent.

A scary debt obligation.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[grey_whiskers]

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Too many fumes in our oxygen
All the smog now is choking you and me
Good Lord, where is it gonna end?
Got to get it back, someday
Got to get it back, and soon now
For tomorrow maybe you and me
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Cheers!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[wideminded]

You don't eat crystal or glasses, you drink from them.

You might want to read this.

Sounds like it might be OK to drink from lead crystal glasses, but consuming liquids that had been stored in lead crystal decanters might give you a pretty big dose of lead.

[goat granny]

Thank you for the link, it was quite interesting but full of theory in part and from a medical standpoint (being a nurse and caring at times for men with acute gout and in the hospital) connecting use of leaded glass to gout is not a medical fact...Most of the gentlemen with gout in the past were wealthy so to connect gout to drinking out of leaded glass is in error....

Gout is a build up of uric acid in the blood. and has to do with the end product of purine metabolism.

For some reason gout attacks the big toe in most cases but can effect any peripheral joint...some cases are genetic prone to run in families...sodium urate crystals get deposited into the joint...some call it Gouty arthritis. Diet is important in controlling gout.

Patients are put on a low purine diet....I have read no medical lit. that one of the causes is drinking alcohol from leaded crystal...but alcohol itself is a causative factor, not the container it is stored in...the poor have gout and no crystal decanters. But it was still an interesting link.

I do stained glass as a hobby and if one goes into a art glass store and looks at all the beautiful different glass, you fall in love with the glass...I still have a lot in my basement and a large window I haven't worked on in ages, and its only about 1/8 left to do...(simply because this home I have now does not have good lighting for cutting glass. I use the copper foil method and have worked with 50-50 lead in finishing a window...the flux you have to use to get the lead to adhere to the copper foil is not fun to breathe in and you have to bend over quite close to the window to get good at running a bead of lead on the window...guess old age took the edge off my love of glass...but it sure is beautiful...

Any freeper that has had an attack of gout can attest to its pain.....some pain is so severe it requires narcotic's until the medication kicks in....

The leaching of lead from the glass is nothing I have any positive info on, but it is an interesting theory...

I did wander far from the original thread didn't I...sorry about that....:O)

[EBH]

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... 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.

I have started to wonder if those indiscretions caused teratogenic effects and created

the current red diaper doper babies that now pollute the USSA, once the great USA.

[SaraJohnson]

Thanks, Joe. More poison sold to the US by China. For those against globalism, demanding China be penalized for selling poison stuff to the US is in order. Also consumers should start suing the corporations that sell poison in the US. By now, they should know to be careful in retailing Chinese products w/o testing.

[pa_dweller]

I bet all of our water bottles are made in China.

Nalgene is still made here.