Re:Coffee mugs

Mercury and lead in coffee mugs:

Look at the bottom of you coffee mug - they are all made in China unless you got a local crafter's mug, but anything under $5 is made in China. I sure cannot find a mug thats not made in China.

I bet a lot of those "Made in China" labels and tags are being peeled off right now, after all these warnings and recalls on Chinese goods. They might replace it with a fake one , but they can get fined for that [ha ha ha ha ha ha - by WHO? government regulaters? Not a chance].

The ceramics type goods have mercury and lead content. Thats a given when they come from China - there is mercury and lead everywhere, but especially in the ground, the clay, the sand.And therefore, your coffee mug.

When the stirring wears out the coating on the mug, we start to get the bad stuff. Those black streaks on the inside bottom of a used mug are not always a sign of lead, but often they are. Sometimes we just can't see it, but its there. Buy new ones every month to protect yourself. Lots of mercury can escape a coffee mug, due to heating and scraping and slurping.

We have seen everything from diapers and clothes to toothpaste and dog food contaminated by the Chinese capitalists [producers]. There has been no warning about coffee mugs, I am offering this one up by myself, but I have heard of the idea from others. I just know it is true, I have been avoiding Chinese coffee mugs for years now because I remembered that warning, but I still have them here, I use them for want of another type. I better spend the big bucks on a crafters mug for the locals.