#Leaded: 1970 Dapper Dan Teaching Doll

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Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (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. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023.

1970! Dapper Dan!
I remember having this exact doll!
Made in Hong Kong; Playskool.
Tested with an XRF instrument.

Yellow Shoes: 10,400 +/- 300 ppm Lead, 41 +/- 10 ppm cadmium
Shoe Grommet: 7,907 +/- 235 ppm Lead , 57 +/- 12 ppm cadmium
Zipper: 101 +/- 45 ppm cadmium
Coat Button: 228 +/- 17 ppm Lead
Belt Grommet: 6,658 +/- 821 ppm Lead
Eyes (painted on): Non-Detect for Lead!

All components were negative for mercury (Hg) and Arsenic (As).

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