1966 Peter Pan brand Christmas record: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Paper sleeve: Lead-free
Vinyl record: 3,777 ppm Lead
For context, the amount of Lead considered toxic in a newly manufactured item made for and intended to be used by children is 90 ppm Lead in the coating and 100 ppm Lead in the substrate. I personally do not let my children use vinyl records as a result of this, and have given away our entire (and extensive!) record collection.
#SaferChoices: Digital copies of the same music! Luckily, in this day an age we can find almost any recording digitally. And, if we cannot, it is fairly easy to digitize your vinyl recordings yourself.
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Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
For those new to this 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 sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the test results for each component tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
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