There’s a decent amount of distance between “lead in item” and “lead from item can be ingested”

Post #444,210 by pwhysall 6/19/24 4:02:07 AM 6/19/24 4:02:07 AM Reply	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.
Post #444,215 by drook 6/19/24 9:25:16 AM 6/19/24 9:25:16 AM Reply	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
Post #444,226 by CRConrad 6/20/24 4:03:03 AM 6/20/24 4:03:03 AM Reply	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
Post #444,238 by drook 6/20/24 8:11:35 PM 6/20/24 8:11:35 PM Reply	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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