Corelle lead danger - is it real?

We use Corelle dishes and I still have plenty pieces of cookware in rotation that were handed down to me from my grandmother. I had never heard anything about this before, but the only reputable information I could find through a quick search is from SNOPES: www.snopes.com/fact-check/vintage-pyrex-contains-unsafe-levels-of-lead/, which comes to the conclusion that it is unlikely an issue.  If it is, the damage has already been done for me and my kids.

Once you go down the Lead Safe Mama rabbit hole you will be freaked out. She has a machine that tests for lead, cadmium and other things. It's truly scary how toxic everything from Corelle, Pyrex, coffee mugs, Tupperware, kids toys are. The list is endless. 90 ppm is safe for kids and things have 10,000 50,000 100,000ppm.

She is on IG & FB (lead safe mama) and has a website (https://tamararubin.com/)

I wouldnt take action based on a social media post. If there was an issue, Corelle and the government agencies would be all over it, as well as educated people, like doctors.

I think that when something affects you or your family, you can easily become far more concerned about it than the average person actually needs to be. And I respectfully think that may be part of the intensity of the information provided by Lead Safe Mama. And I get that. For instance, my father & grandfather were both firefighters, and I know I am way more diligent about things than other people are, and yet they still get by just fine without my same level of fire prevention awareness. My husband & kids do things to appease me, even though DH never did some of those things ever in his entire life before he started living with me.


But back to lead, unless I'm wrong, aren't lead checks for babies and young children a standard part of well child checks in the US? They were standard when my kids were young, regardless of what doctor we were seeing with which child. We were using old Pyrex with our kids and we spent time in old homes and my kids' lead levels were always well below the safe mark. If the Pyrex was truly a danger, I would have expected to see the lead levels to at least come back higher, even if not at a level worthy of immediate concern.

So while I don't begrudge anyone who wants to try to help others avoid something awful happening, I personally see those Facebook posts and I just let them go by. But again, I think we all choose which risk factors are more worrisome to us based on our life experiences, so I understand that while I feel perfectly fine with my old dishes, others may find reason to rid their homes of their own.

There is zero chance that unsafe levels of lead were allowed in dishes as late as 2005. I could believe it for the '70s but not this century. Lead paint in homes stopped being used in 1978 because it was unsafe. Certainly unsafe lead levels weren't allowed in things you are supposed to eat off of after that.

Nothing about this sounds reasonable.