#Leaded: Hevea Baby Bottle

Introduction (for those new to this website):

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.

One of my readers informed me last night (New Year’s Eve, 2017/2018) that this Hevea baby bottle tested positive for Lead when tested with a LeadCheck swab. The part that was positive for Lead is the painted “Hevea” logo on the outside of the glass bottle that is inside the natural rubber ball.  I am having one of these bottles sent to me this week so that I can also test it with an XRF instrument to confirm the presence of Lead and – it is positive for Lead with an XRF, to quantify the amount present in the logo of this bottle. In the meantime, I recommend not letting your child use this product OR use it with a different interior glass bottle until further notice.

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