It's unclear to me whether one should worry, assuming the glaze is intact. The cookware passes California prop 65 standards (extremely stringent). The coloratio

It's unclear to me whether one should worry, assuming the glaze is intact. The cookware passes California prop 65 standards (extremely stringent). The coloration with the high cadmium levels is not on a surface that contacts food, and even if it was, I don't know that it would leach. But we have no way of knowing without expensive testing! However, even if we ignore the possibility of harm to the end user, I think the author of that blog makes a great point: "By using high levels of Cadmium in manufacturing, Le Creuset has – apparently for decades – been causal in contributing to “the demand for” the mining, refining and manufacturing of a toxic pigment that can (and does) poison others (workers, communities, waterways, the planet) through various processes/at multiple points throughout their manufactured products’ life cycles."