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Anne Miller said, "I understand the all white Correll dishes by Corning are lead free. I resisted these for years but love them for their durability.
Peter said, "I understand from Tamara Rubin that the Corelle dishes you mentioned are lead free, but the MUGS that come in the set DO contain lead.
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Debbie Ann wrote:Hi Jen,
The 2nd page says....that you may be a little worried about the dishes made before 2005 and really worried about the ones made before 1980. I would be surpised if there were still a lot of 40 year old dishes in circulation but you never know. Could still be a lot of 15 year old dishes around. Maybe, maybe not.
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Jen Fulkerson wrote:Choosing to be a stay at home mom, my husband injuring his neck rendering him unable to work, added to the fact I'm just lousy with money. We have had to do a lot of corner cutting along the way. The thrift store was my friend. I got some amazing deals for sometimes even new stuff. One day they had boxes of Corelle dishes. They were complete, and I don't remember what I paid, but it is a great deal. I loved it, tough, thin so it didn't take up a lot of space. It started a collection, I now have lots of colors and styles, and I love it. I discovered, recently some are even worth money. Because of this, I thought it has been harder to find. The other day I got 4 of the small plates, 4 saucers, and 4 bowels for 5.00. For for I looked up the pattern, to see if I got a deal. I did it was the first pattern made. Then I see an article about Corelle containing lead. Not just one article, but many, even Corelle saying to use anything made before 2009 as decorative. I'm so bummed, I love these plates. We own an old house, so my kids were tested for lead, and it was negative. But we have been using it for many years. Now I have to buy new plates, and figure out what to do with the old ones. Plus I can't seem to figure out if it's ok to use the bowels and cups. The lead is in the color and patterns. The bowls and cups don't have color or pattern on the inside. I'm sad I have to buy new plates, have to get rid of my happy collection, and mad this information isn't more available. If anyone knows about the bowels and cups, please let me know. Thanks
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Jen Fulkerson wrote:Then I see an article about Corelle containing lead. Not just one article, but many, even Corelle saying to use anything made before 2009 as decorative. I'm so bummed, I love these plates.
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Michael Fundaro wrote:
Jen Fulkerson wrote:Then I see an article about Corelle containing lead. Not just one article, but many, even Corelle saying to use anything made before 2009 as decorative. I'm so bummed, I love these plates.
I understand the concern. Reports of the old days of kids eating chips of lead paint are scary. But if lead was really that deadly emergency room doctors would make every effort to remove lead bullets from gun shot victims. When I was a Police Officer we were told time and time again that if we were ever shot odds are if the bullet was not in a "dangerous" location they would not try to cause more damage to dig it out, we would just end up continuing life with a bullet in our leg or wherever they deemed it non-dangerous. With that in mind, if a lead bullet left in the body was not a threat to health I would think the dishes you have been using for years should not be a concern. After all lead in the body and in contact with your blood would release much more "contamination" than would be absorbed by food on a plate.
I am not a Doctor or a scientist but I did stay at a shabby motel once or twice. =-)
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Jay Angler wrote:
Be aware that if you test "A" for lead - and it tests positive - that still may not be the source of your poisoning. Based on the link above - make sure you haven't just identified a "potential small source" rather than the "big important source" - like the water you drink and the food you eat! Lead pipes and copper pipes that were soldered poorly with lead-based solders are more likely to give you lead poisoning symptoms than white plates with some colour on the rim.
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C Lundquist wrote:I have the white and snowflake blue patterns. (The snowflake ones are one of the original patterns and were only made 1970-1976)
I tested the snowflake pattern when I had my first kid (because I went around the house and tested EVERYTHING, especially things made before 1978, when lead paint was outlawed in the US). All the Corelle ware I have is lead free.
We tried different lead testing kits. The 3M lead tests worked well. Other brands we tried did not pick up lead from known leaded paint from our 1950 house. :S I only buy and trust the 3M ones now. They are more expensive, but I stretch them by testing a few things at once, rubbing only a corner of the swab on each item. The red is pretty bright and distinctive.
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Jay Angler wrote:His research suggests that the lead tester pictured above work on paint, but the results are not completely trustworthy on "not paint".
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