Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020Introduction: Tamara Rubin is a independent advocate for consumer goods safety, and she is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009 and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses high-precision XRF testing (a scientific method used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for contaminants including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic. [bio link]
Stay Safe Out There!
Hey readers – I hope you are staying well out there with all that is going on in the world right now!
I am working hard to get through literally HUNDREDS of posts that have created a backlog in my system for more than a year now. To make this happen, I am simply posting the images and the test results – without a lot of additional information. [Do not worry — I will continue to update them with more information as I get caught up and begin to have the time!]
For those new to my website, please check out the menu in the header of the website for more information about how I test things (and my background, etc.) On each post you can also click on any of the keyword tabs at the top of the post to find more items in that category. Here’s the post discussing the type of testing I do, and the specific instrument I use to detect, analyze and confirm metals content, and ultimately produce the resultant data for each item reported here – link.
Please Note: Test results reported below are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Test results reported here are from tests that were done for a minimum of 60 seconds each, and repeated multiple times, to confirm the results. As with all the testing reported here on my blog, a freshly-calibrated high-precision XRF instrument testing in Consumer Goods mode was used to test the item pictured here.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts!
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
Test results for the green glass olive oil bottle pictured on this post:
Green glass olive oil bottle – 3 minute test:
- Lead (Pb): 40 +/-15 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 4,902 +/- 404 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 1,122 +/- 47 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,458 +/- 145 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 93 +/- 56 ppm
Some additional reading that may be of interest:
- Click here to see more green glass items that I have tested.
- Click here to read more about glass bottles that I have tested.
Thanks for the review on this item, everybody in the family uses this oil so it was good to see this.
Is it possible to test a Carlo Rossi Cabernet Sauvignon Wine, 4 L bottle for safety since they have a green tint as well?
Thank you for testing this bottle, Tamara. It has been bothering me, though, that the most olive oil bottles are green or colored glass, not clear glass. They should use glass bottles with no toxic materials in my opinion. What brand of extra virgin olive oil do you and your family use in your house?
Thanks for your working 🙂
What brand of Avocado oil do you use for your cooking?
Isn’t barium more of a concern then lead what do you think
I think it has not been sufficiently studied in these applications.
T
HI! Have you tested other brands of olive oil? Or avocado oil? I’m wondering what safe brands there are!