Calling attention to food safe or not food safe?

[John Torchick]

Gearing up to display some turnings in addition to custom pens. How do you turners make it known if a turning is food safe or not food safe? I'm concerned in this day of lawsuits that a person buys a bowl and gets sick because they used it for breakfast cereal. I'm thinking to mark this on the bottom of the turning that can be used for food.

 

[john lucas]

I dont worry about it. As near as I can tell from research all the finishes we use as turners are food safe once the volatiles have evaporated. I do use mahoneys food safe finish on my baby rattles and that's the only time I might mention it to close a sale.

 

[Holmes Anderson]

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[John Torchick]

I dont worry about it. As near as I can tell from research all the finishes we use as turners are food safe once the volatiles have evaporated. I do use mahoneys food safe finish on my baby rattles and that's the only time I might mention it to close a sale.

So let it sit for a while before selling it? Thanks for your help.

 

[Tom Albrecht]

So let it sit for a while before selling it? Thanks for your help.

Two weeks minimum, that's what I learned long ago. If you have a good nose, you can also get a good idea by taking a few deep sniffs inside the bowl.

 

[Richard Coers]

How would you suggest that anyone can leach, or get a piece of the finish from the wood into their mouth? Cutting board of course, cereal bowl less likely. There is no warning on every plastic utensil, or any piece of plastic anything, that micro plastics are now in 99% of the fish we eat. Micro plastics are found in our rain and the air we breathe. Eating from a finished wood bowl is now healthier than eating from a plastic cereal bowl.

 

[John Grace]

I approach this conservatively in today's litigious society. If the manufacturer of the finish isn't willing to say 'food safe' then I'm not about to vouch for them. With so many food safe identified finishes I'm not sure why anyone would take a chance.

 

[Darryl Fective]

It seems like some some of the same people that ask if a finish is food-safe, won't give a second thought about eating a burger from a styrofoam box or scraping their spoon around the inside of a plastic yogurt cup.

Like John said, all are safe once fully cured.

 

[William Rogers]

I’m going to agree with John Grace that there are too many finishes to chance something. I only use FDA compliant for food contact finishes. There are several. I have no idea if a person may have a reaction to something. The other side is a child might chew anything and if something wasn’t safe it wouldn’t be on the market.

 

[John Torchick]

I’m going to agree with John Grace that there are too many finishes to chance something. I only use FDA compliant for food contact finishes. There are several. I have no idea if a person may have a reaction to something. The other side is a child might chew anything and if something wasn’t safe it wouldn’t be on the market.

Kids used to chew wood window sills that had lead paint. Then came safer paint.

 

[Webb Willmott]

OMG, Honey, I have to rush junior to the emergency room. They gave him red M&M’s, cherry Koolaid, and Fruit Loops at daycare.