Friday, December 18, 2009

Do modern oil paints today still contain lead?

I'm curious because my brother gave me his old paint kit from the early 90s and one of the tubes of paint, a titanium white Winsor and Newton water mixable oil paint, contains a warning: Contains Lead! and a detailed description about prolonged exposure to lead


The other tubes don't contain the warning label so I'm assuming their safe.Do modern oil paints today still contain lead?
Most don't today ,but there are a couple that still do including Titanium white.


Natural pigments such as lead, zinc, titanium, cadmium, sienna, and umber, as well as synthetic pigments have been used in bringing color to the oil paints. A good number of these are toxic (e.g. lead carbonate, cobalt, cadmium).
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