The 8 ounce and 12 ounce children’s Cupkin double-walled stainless steel cups were the subject of a July 20 recall, the company said. “After recently receiving feedback from consumer advocates and additional follow-up testing, we discovered that the double walled vacuum 8oz and 12oz cups may pose an unacceptable exposure to lead if the cup bottoms are mistreated,” the company said in the release. The cups, which are primarily sold on Amazon, have since been removed from the site. “We are going to be as transparent and proactive as possible to resolve this ASAP,” the company said in the release. “ Cups may have been purchased in 12 different color combinations, including blue and green, pink and purple, blue and gray, peach and teal, black and white, coral and yellow, green and pink, polignac and potpourri, brown and peach, rust and salmon, aqua and periwinkle and cobalt and mint, according to the CPSC. Lead poisoning and long-term exposure can cause damage to a child’s brain and nervous system leading to learning, behavioral and speech problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Its a shame products can only be tester after they have been sold to the public and had a wide ranging impact on health.
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These were tested twice before being brought to market. The labs didn’t test the bottom of the cup.
So they tested half of the product?
In order to detect lead, the paint has to be chipped away on the bottom of the cup. Kind of an extreme test.
Extreme? Like paint never chips off a cup?
Why is there any lead in the first place? Even if its coated? Especially in a product designed for food?
Surely checking what materials are even going into the product in the first place.
Given how toxic lead is, and the product is designed for children to use to drink from, why is any lead in the product at all?
Not tested because it shouldn’t be exposed during normal use
They’re childrens cups. They will be dropped at some point which will damage the base and coatings. So that is a dumb take.
Overall this entire case is bonkers. Children’s products shouldn’t contain lead. Children breaking stuff should be considered “normal use”.
I can’t believe how many people are justifying this behaviour
Why is there any lead in the first place?
If you have a metal double-walled mug, chances are that there is lead in it. I think I recall a small amount of it being used for sealant which is then usually covered up with another layer of metal that effectively hides the lead.
I own two of them. They’ve been dropped many times. There are a few chips of paint off the bottom but none exposing the center plug. Lead isn’t radioactive. It’s perfectly safe as long as you don’t ingest it. I’m not happy there’s lead in the cups. But they’re still usable.
It’s a whole systemic breakdown. The maker knew of the potential for lead - ordered them without lead from the manufacturer, and had them tested by two independent labs. Christ sake what the hell else should they do? By the way before choosing a manufacturer in China this guy tried to find one in the US. Guess what? We don’t make double wall stainless in the US.
I hate the world we are living in. Nearly every single kitchen tool is rebranded Chinese garbage and I feel like it’s not safe.
I just want a damn rubber spatula set, measuring cups, and measuring spoons, and my only options are the same product with 30 different word vomit Chinese branding on them.
Why is it impossible to find quality stuff these days? My parents have kitchen tools from 1703 and that shit is indestructible, but I try to stir a pot of water and my tools all snap, crackle, and pop.
Why is it impossible to find quality stuff these days?
Globalization of capitalism.
When it comes to lead, older shit is absolutely not safer. We used that shit to carry our drinking water via lead pipes for thousands of years despite knowing that lead causes health problems.
Long ago lead was even used as an artificial sweetener.
Older isn’t always better. Pewter for instance was used in the kitchen and often contained lead.
I’ve been pretty happy with my GIR spatulas.
For measuring cups and spoons, any stainless should be safe and durable. This lead was found in the seal disc under the paint which only pertains to double wall stainless. If you want dance USA made set look at All-Clad.
As an owner of these and other double wall stainless cups made in China, I wanted more information than this paywalled article. Somebody should start a lemmy instance that bans all paywall links.
Anyway the company was very diligent at preventing this but it still happened. See here:
https://www.cupkin.com/pages/recall
For anyone interested in facts and not headlines, the lead is on the exterior of the cup, in the bottom under the powder coated paint. It’s a seal disc in the bottom. Lead poses a threat to health only if ingested. For this lead to be ingested you’d basically have to destroy the cup.
This part was interesting:
tested the top selling household kids cup brands and found lead under the stainless steel discs for every single kids cup brand.
I think it would be safe to assume you’ll find lead in the seal disc on the bottom of any double wall stainless made in China.
“It was tested thoroughly”
clearly not.
