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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).
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This little doll tested positive for cadmium (Cd) at 164 +/- 17 ppm.
Modern standards consider a reading of 40 ppm cadmium toxic for a child’s toy.
I was really surprised to find that this was not positive for Lead!
Here’s a link to a modern, likely #LeadFree version of a similar doll on Amazon!
Here are more plastic children’s items Lead Safe Mama has tested.
For more #SaferChoices for your family, click here.
Celluloid is a *fun* material (and one of the first plastics!). It was used for a wide variety of things, especially to imitate ivory as well as in pre-acetate film (known to spontaneously combust in hot projectors). My family has a clock made by Seth Thomas that uses Adamantine, a type of celluloid. That said, celluloid was largely banned by the 1940s in the US due to it being highly combustable, as well as vulnerable to moisture, thermal changes, and even fungi. It’s mostly used now for musical instruments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid
Thank you for commenting! Good info!
T