For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:
Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for five product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
- Please check out our press page to see some amazing coverage of our work so far this year!
Earlier today (12/23) 3M unexpectedly delivered 12,000 Lead-Check test kits for Lead Safe America! (Yes, you heard me right, TWELVE THOUSAND! Thank you 3M! My office is now FULL of boxes!) We now have five pallets of product that arrived at my office doorstep! It was amazing!
We need your support to get these and other resources to families. (This pic is just of what is in the hall outside my office — the rest is stacked floor-to-ceiling in my office!)
Another “Christmas Present” that also arrived in the mail today… Emmy award-winning journalist Rob Reynolds (reporting for Al Jazeera English) sent me a DVD of the recent news piece he authored on the issue in October 2013 for the international news market. It’s a comprehensive, thoughtful, and thorough news piece that uses my family’s story to frame the issue and covers everything from the importance of Lead-safe work practices to the concern for Lead’s impact on criminality and, most important, touches on the fact that this is an “everyone” problem — for anyone living in an historic home — not just a low-income families in ethnic minorities problem (a myth that too many news stories, reports, and studies emphasize and re-emphasize).
I’ve published the video link below. Please watch this five-minute piece and share!
Please also consider supporting the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC with a donation, which supports our ability to continue the third-party independent testing and reporting we do here.
You can make a backer pledge on Kickstarter: Here’s the link to watch the trailer to our film and make a pledge…
Thank you!
Very powerful and so personal a story backed by frightening scientific studies. Seeing and hearing about the real life results on her poisoned kid and her lifelong fears was chilling.
The news clips showed program workers dry scraping that old paint in a housing development. The workers seemed to be well protecting themselves with safety gear. But the wind flapping the plastic sheeting away from the ground was disturbing to me. Didn’t that make the paint chips get into the yards around the house where kids play? I guess we have a long way to go to get home remodelers, whether paid contractors or DIY owners, to believe that they are now the ones who have the most impact on controlling the lead dust in the neighborhoods. I hope this story gets seen and understood by them RIGHT NOW!
Thanks for posting Catherine!