I want to know though, the people in this thread who said they would never drink from this cup, what do you drink hot drinks from? Since apparently most mugs with glaze have the same components though not everything has a label?
Occasional use is not likely to be a serious problem. However, if you have a favorite mug, and drink coffee (which is hot and acidic and strips the coating) from it every or almost every day, lead leeching can become a problem, especially during pregnancy. This can be compounded by using a washing machine which peels and fades the exterior.
Properly glazed and fired mugs will usually say "dishwasher safe" or have some kind of quality guarantee label on the box or mug itself. It's the cheaply manufactured ones, ones with elaborate paint schemes and raised decorations on the outside, and ones made in countries with lower manufacturing standards like China you have to be wary of.
Me personally, I don't drink coffee, so it's not much of a concern. At most I'll have a cup of hot chocolate in a mug every once in a while when it's cold or rainy outside, but that's about it. If I drink a glass of milk or orange juice, it's in a clear glass.
. . . How dare these fucking socialists in California do something as crazy as....provide
factual information on what a product is made out of!! Bunch of tree-hugging druids running things....
There are facts, and then there are alarmist half-truths. For example, you may hear that "X number of children are reported missing in the U.S. every day." What the fearmongers don't tell you is that 90 percent of kids "reported" missing are found within 48 hours, and that only about 100 children are kidnapped by strangers each year -- less than one in a million.
Lots of things contain chemicals that
may cause cancer or reproductive harm -- if you consume them in impossibly huge quantities. Like giving rats a dose of artificial sweetener equivalent to 1000 bottles of Coca-Cola every day.
Anyway, tonight I feel like living dangerously. I'm going to have a nice, big, juicy slice of cantaloupe.
Yes, when is the scientific community going to reach a consensus on chronic lead and cadmium poisoning being bad. I'm tired of all this back and forth debate over the past several decades. Oh wait, that hasn't happened.
It's the knee jerk reactionary response to a simple label that irritates me. You go off half-cocked whenever you perceive any kind of PC or nanny state behavior without even thinking things through first. You're acting as if someone is forcing you to buy a Prius and put a wind turbine on top of your garage just because they dared to inform people of a POTENTIAL health hazard so they can make an informed decision on their own. You're acting as if the label is warning of something completely stupid and obvious like "The tip of this knife is sharp. Do not stick in eye."
Plus, unless you're secretly a child or have a uterus you're expecting to be occupied soon, you're not really in the highest risk group for prolonged exposure from daily use of poorly made ceramic mugs, so why does it bother you so much anyway?
Pardon me, but I'll trust
the FDA, the state of California and their totalitarian warning label program, and countless peer-reviewed scientific studies over someone who probably thinks having to buy CFLs is an assault on his Constitutional freedoms.
By the way, that wasn't my quote in your post above, though you can probably guess that I agree with the sarcastic sentiment.