From: David Lenling redwinger65@hotmail.com
Location: Prior Lake, MN
Date: 12/8/99
Time: 4:05:42 PM
Hi, I have insights in to your pitcher in two ways! First while I was searching for radioactive glazed pottery items this year at a flea market, for my chemistry teacher, A feista dealer told me that they had a college professor buy a red pitcher because they broke the science depeartments example, it cost them several hunderd dollars, most likely the same teacher as your daughter!!! That my high school teacher uses the dishes as class examples tells you that they are safe, well maybe he has had several unplaned explosions in class, but he loves the dinnerware, he has since made up a whole lab about it. Now about the safety, when I heard that the plates were radioactive I brougt one in to school to test it THE GEIGER COUNTER WENT CRAZY it registered 2,000 counts a minute. I was alarmed too, my tecaher did not know how safe it was. So this summer when I went on a tour of a neuclear power plant I asked their head of safety about the plates, they had done tests on them and found that they are well within the safety limits, evan if you have a set of over 100 items, it is fine to eat off of them too. As long as you dont put the set under your bed and sleep over it each night your fine. The reason that they are safe is that the radioactive elements are trapped within the glaze so you cant ingest them. If they were loose they said that the plates would be high level radioactive waste!