Corelle recommends using their pre-2005 dishes as “decorative pieces” due to lead

[sudsmaster]

If I'm not mistaken, older galvanized steel plumbing pipes had lead as part of their ingredients. Apparently it was a contaminant in the zinc galvanizing.

I had the service line to this home replaced around 1998. The home was built in 1941; I bought it around 1997. The original one was galvanized steel which had eventually failed and was leaking. Later I also replaced the galvanized steel water lines to the kitchen and fridge with copper.

Lead sucks.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/f.../epa_lead_in_drinking_water_final_8.21.17.pdf

 

[joeekaitis]

But when all is said and done . . .

 

. . . you're more likely to be killed by someone texting the link to the story while driving.

 

[ea56]

Re: Reply#20

Rich you make a good point about the lead in older galvanized steel plumbing. When I first went to work for the County of Sonoma Human Services Dept in 1985 I used to make my own coffee in the mornings using a single cup Melitta pour over brewer.

I used a large orange plastic tumbler to heat the water in the microwave in the break room. After several months I began to notice that the tumbler was getting hotter and hotter after the water came to a boil, I couldn’t even hold it without several layers of paper towel. Then I noticed that a dark gray film had built up on the inside of the tumbler up to the level that I filled it with water every morning.

I’m pretty certain that the film was a build up of lead that was in the water that had been sitting in those old galvanized steel pipes overnight. I started work at 7am, but arrived at 6:40 am and was usually one of the first to arrive, so I was also the first person of the day to run the water. After that I stopped using that tumbler and got a little instant hot pot to heat the water for my coffee, and I let the water run for a while before I filled the pot.

Still, in the 20 years that I worked in that circa 1964 building I forever after noticed that the water from the fountain had a distinct metallic flavor and odor, which was probably lead from those old pipes leaching into the water.

Eddie

 

[iej]

Metallic taste could well have been from old cast iron. Lead in water doesn’t have any taste, another reason why it’s hugely problematic where it still exists.

 

[sudsmaster]

Interesting!

 

[moderncleveland]

There's lead in the paint, but how much of the paint ever gets eaten? I have the same plates from when I was a little kid and they look exactly the same ... I guess what I'm trying to say is the number of people who eat lead off their vintage painted Corelle dinnerware and subsequently got seriously ill from it is probably approximately zero ... that site is too funny, though. They will try to ban everything if we let them!

Kevin and Bradford, yes, Butterfly Gold all the way!!

 

[sudsmaster]

Corelle sez it's not a problem for post-2000 mfg product.

And that it's a minimal concern for pre-2000 product.

I think I already posted the link(s).

 

[norgeway]

I pay no attention

To any of these warnings I cook in aluminum, I use vintage Tupperware and all the rest of the things everyone is afraid of.

 

[norgeway]

I pay no attention

To any of these warnings I cook in aluminum, I use vintage Tupperware and all the rest of the things everyone is afraid of.

 

[mattl]

I read a study years ago that indicated the all the lead in the air from leaded gas caused us all to loose IQ points.  It also contributed to higher rates of crime, and after lead was removed a decade or so later there was a reduction in the crime rate.

 

There was much more in the extensive research presented in the study, very long article, but those are the points that stayed with me.

 

BTW, read another study that indicated zero risk using aluminum cookware.  Been using some vintage Club aluminum pots for the past few years after reading the risk was negligible.

 

[bradfordwhite]

How could aluminum foil be safe; that which can easily become friable and break off into tiny pieces compared to a rigid solid aluminum pan?

 

[kb0nes]

I have zero concern of the lead in my Corelle or Pyrex or any other household products.

This was the real problem we all faced

 

[mattl]

 

Wow, excellent video.  It encapsulates much of the info I was talking about from the article I referenced a few posts back.  I consider this a must view and will pass it on to many folks I know.

 

Thanks!

 

BTW, the report I read also indicated that all that lead spewed from cars over decades settled into the soil and coated buildings and such.  When areas are redeveloped that lead get released back into the atmosphere again.  Inner cities  have a much higher concentration of lead in the soil, and kids who play in the area have much higher amounts of lead in their systems.

 

A lot of this happened in Flint and Detroit back in the 1920's and with the water issues of a few years back seems to have come full circle.

[this post was last edited: 7/14/2022-12:59]

 

[mark_wpduet]

In sept 2004 we moved into this new house... We had some dinner plates/bowls but we needed more...We bought some Corelle at Walmart..Something like 8 dinner plates, 8 small bowls and 4 large bowls.. We also have a few that are not Corelle but also have a design...it doesn't say..

 

[48bencix]

Test for lead in water

I do not have vintage Corell but I have lived in many houses with galvanized water pipes. I do not remember ever seeing that this could introduce lead into the water. However reading some of the responses I did some searching and did see several articles about this.

I ordered a Safe Home Laboratory test for water. The DYI test indicated lead. So I ordered the kit that you send samples into a lab for testing.

I just got the results and no detectable lead in the water, thank goodness.

I did two samples one from the refrigerator which is supplied by a brass saddle valve on copper pipe (the house has both types of pipes) and a second sample from the kitchen sink which is supplied by galvanized pipes. For the second sample you let the water run for 5 minutes to flush the system. I was pretty sure that sample would be not detected. I was worried about the refrigerator water that I drink all day because it is chilled. Also that brass valve could have lead in it and that could be a source. So I feel confident about my water.

I would not worry about galvanized piping. I think the main problem is with homes that had a lead pipe from the street to the home.

 

[mattl]

 

Well, living outside of Flint MI I've kind of gotten an  education on lead in drinking water. The problem isn't so much lead or galvanized lines, it's water improperly treated stripping away years of crystallization that has coated the pipes. Not sure if wholesale replacement of water lines is better than simply monitoring water treatment/quality.