Here’s a worrying timesink: https://tamararubin.com/2018/11/dishes/
tl;dr: She uses a $50K X-ray fluorescence gun to test things for lead, and finds it.
tl;dr: She uses a $50K X-ray fluorescence gun to test things for lead, and finds it.
Lead in dishes
Here’s a worrying timesink: https://tamararubin.com/2018/11/dishes/ tl;dr: She uses a $50K X-ray fluorescence gun to test things for lead, and finds it. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Now point it at spices
-- Drew |
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There’s a decent amount of distance between “lead in item” and “lead from item can be ingested”
Her website is hard to navigate, but I can’t (from a superficial reading - perhaps this info is there but buried) see if there’s any assessment of whether the detected lead is in a form that can actually be ingested. Lead’s everywhere. It’s the ingestable lead that’s the problem. |
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She has an article that addresses this
What little testing is done happens when the dishes are new. There's no accounting for what happens when the dishes are years old, worn, chipped glaze, etc. Given that there's effectively no safe dose for lead, and that it accumulates in our bodies, and (most importantly) there are dishes that are made without lead, why would you choose the ones that have it? -- Drew |
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Re: "why would you choose the ones that have it?"
Sure, seems sensible. So, is this (preferably somewhat prominently) marked on the packaging... Or is that "impossible" because the industry complained about "Big Government woke librul millennials interfering with commerce!"? -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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What standards there are aren't terribly useful
Even if there's no lead in the glaze, as she points out, as soon as there's sufficient wear or cracking, whatever's inside is getting out. -- Drew |
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Aaaaaand there it is
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Mixed
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Made me look for something I saw a while ago...
E.g. Lead in Air, Soil, and Blood: Pb Poisoning in a Changing World - Mielke et al.: This study addresses integrating atmospheric lead (Pb), soil Pb, and blood Pb for understanding spatiotemporal dynamics of Pb poisoning, especially in urban settings. The 1925 Yandell Henderson warning about the effects of inhaled air Pb on physiology and human organ systems suggested that Pb aerosols are especially important and underrecognized [1]. Current studies relating air Pb and blood Pb support Professor Henderson’s early concerns. tl;dr - Yes, lead is bad. Yes, continuing to remove it from consumer products is good. But people aren't being poisoned by lead in old Tupperware. They're being poisoned (though slower than in the past) by lead in dust in cities and at their kids schools and playgrounds from burning leaded gasoline. Thanks. Cheers, Scott. |
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But, do they have lead free fishing sinkers?
Of course they must, these days - who could resist selling fishing sinkers for 24.5 times the cost of the lead ones? Personally, I'd go for depleted uranium. |
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I killed a lot of brain cells in Middle School
This was before I started doing drugs. In 7th grade we had metal shop. Basically imagine any piece of cutting or bending or smoothing tool you would need in a professional metal shop and we probably had it. It was amazing. We had a wood shop too. 5 years later they closed anything that could cut a finger off and replaced it with something less physically harmful. Oh well. Back to metal shop. One of my favorite things to do in metal shop was simply melt lead using a ladle with the blowtorch and then pour the lead into casts and let it cool and pop those fishing weights or soldier figurines out. The smell of lead metal fumes is embedded in my memory. I wonder how many IQ points I wiped out in the process. |
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This one doesn't strike me as a play
She started doing this when her own kids were poisoned. She's been putting her own time and money into it for years. For all that time she's been giving recommendations of what's safe to buy. Why shouldn't she make something off of it? -- Drew |