Some Chinese painted ceramics are lead contaminated

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There is an article in the NY Times, and presumably soon in many other
papers, about a doctor in Philadelphia that has tested Chinese painted
ceramics and found some 25% of them to be contaminated with lead. Some had
high levels. Three plates and two spoons had levels that far exceeded
limits set by the FDA. You can see those in this picture:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images...ramicsspan/29ceramicsspan-articleLarge-v2.jpg

Now I do not know if viewing the above picture counts towards one's 20 free
articles a month. I suspect not. But reading the entire article definitely
will, so I only recommend it to those that have a NY Times online account:

Pretty Patterns That Camouflage a Poison
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/health/29ceramics.html

Do you have some of this around your home?

The article also mentions a lead problem with Mexican ceramics that are
colorfully painted.

Don. http://paleofood.com/kitchen-equipment.htm (e-mail at page bottom).
 
Don Wiss wrote:

Who would have thunk it? Actually, thanks for the heads up, since
my daughter and I tend to like Asian things.

Now... If one finds the link via google news or something, it
would be wise to post the google page.
 
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:51:39 -0400, "Jean B." wrote:



I linked my NY Times online account to my parents' print subscription. At
89 and 91 they are only reading the Times at the dining table, and if
someone e-mails one of them a link, it will be covered by the 20 free
articles a month. Only one online account can link to a print account.

A friend that is a regular online Times reader (his parents' print
subscription is to the Washington Post) has hunted around for ways to
subvert the over priced pay wall. He finds that this is being discussed in
blogs and forums all over. What he learned is the pay wall is controlled
partially by cookies, and deleting all of the NYT's ones resets the
counter. Then he found some Firefox programming tool add-in that makes
deleting them easier. And a fellow wrote a Javascript program called
NYTClean that adds a button to the Firefox toolbar that you press and it
strips "cruft" from links to NYT articles, which I don't understand.

Don. http://paleofood.com/kitchen-equipment.htm (e-mail at page bottom).
 
Don Wiss wrote:

In California since Prop 65 was passed these items get tested. The ones
with toxins get a sticker. The ones without don't. The ones without
sell a lot better. The ones with a sticker are for decor only to folks
who read and understand what it says on the sticker.
 
Don Wiss wrote:


I heard that a man in Canada, where the fee was instituted
earlier, had worked around this. It was on NPR, and I think they
said they had posted a link to this. The context, IIRC, was a
program on the NYT's initiation of this practice, and the practice
in general.

--
Jean B.
 
On 3/31/2011 5:38 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:

My new made-in-China kitchen cabinets emits poisonous gases - at least
that's what the gal at the Home Depot told me. Thank God I don't live in
that house. What's the deal with the Chinese and why are they trying to
kill us? :-)
 
On 01/04/2011 2:20 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:


On the contrary, they definitely count on repeat business. They sell
shoddy products because they know that most people are short sighted
tightwads for home the sticker price is the best indicator of value,
even when it involves the false economy of buying products that are
dangerous, shoddily made and/or don't last. They may not make as much
money off you the fist time, but they will make up for it the second,
third and fourth time that they have to buy new ones to replace them.
 
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:26:21 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:


Why blame the Chinese? Blame the company that ordered the product
made for so low a price that it couldn't be made with quality parts
and doesn't have a decent quality assurance team with feet on the
ground in China, if they expect their product to be made with x and
not z.

As far as those kitchen cabinets sold by Home Depot. I lay the blame
squarely at the feet of Home Depot.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 01/04/2011 2:39 PM, sf wrote:


Did I blame the Chinese? I thought I was blaming the people who buy
their products to save a few bucks on the short term.



They only carry them because people will buy them. Apparently someone
told the previous poster about the problem.
 
dsi1 wrote:


Probably referring to formaldehyde emitted by pressed wood
materials. It's temporary and no big deal, as long as the space
is well ventilated. Some modern energy-efficient homes may be
an exception.
 
On Apr 1, 9:33?am, Mark Thorson wrote:

The cabinets were laminated wood construction which probably did emit
some formaldehyde. The Home Depot stuff was made of pressed wood
substance. They had a higher line of cabinets of better materials but
I didn't want to wait 3 weeks for those slow, expensive, cabinets. The
cabinets I got were cheaper, nicer, came with some nifty hardware, of
better construction, and available. Purchasing them made me feel like
a really smart guy.
 
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