2019 Creative Co-op Kellie Montana ceramic Christmas plate: 49 ppm Lead + 1,319 ppm Cadmium (a known carcinogen)
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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 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). Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
Christmas Tree Sheep Plate — 30 seconds
Food surface (tree/ cart — red):
- Lead (Pb): 49 +/- 32 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 1,319 +/- 56 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 6,378 +/- 394 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 574 +/- 183 ppm
- Selenium (Se): 741 +/- 40 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 207 +/- 54 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 5,265 +/- 162 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 112 +/- 46 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 735 +/- 101 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 151 +/- 28 ppm
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A number of years ago, I purchased two small Christmas canisters: one has a donkey looking at baby Jesus in the manger and says “all is calm all is bright;” the second smaller one has a lamb look I’m
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I am curios S to whether there are more to this set and if so where can I find them. They are precious and I would like more. Thank you.