For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:
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).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
- Since 2009, Tamara has been conducting XRF testing (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- Recent notable press… There has been too much to mention already in 2024! Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!
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Introduction
For each article we publish, there are category keyword tabs at the top of the post. Each of those keywords is a link to the category, and you can get to that category overview (to see all of the articles in that category) anytime by clicking on any of those words. We are also publishing summary pieces for each category (like this one), so Lead Safe Mama readers are able to find all the articles we’ve written for some of the more popular categories on the website, easily and quickly (at a glance). Feedback is welcome. Please let us know if these summary pieces are helpful. Thank you!
And without further ado… See all our #420 related articles below (each numbered line is a link to a piece with photos and more information, including — in most pieces — XRF test results for the item discussed):
#420 related items we have tested and reported on:
- XRF test results for a glass “Sneaky Pete” vape pen
- XRF test results for an Aluminum stash canister
- XRF test results for Titanium pipe screens
- XRF test results for a metal tobacco grinder/ pot grinder
- XRF test results for a green and white handblown glass pipe
- XRF test results for a clear, white and yellow handblown glass pipe
- Lead-safe smoking overview
- XRF tet results for hemp wick (makes a good toy for kids, too, but that’s a separate article!)
- “A 420 Story,” which is a piece I wrote in 2013 about an activist I met along the way
As always, thank you for reading.
Thank you for being here, and thank you for sharing this work!
Tamara Rubin
Owner — Lead Safe Mama, LLC
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If you wouldn’t mind, what is your opinion on commercially grown hemp seeds? My kids have dairy allergies and we try to stay away from all other milks because of phytic acid, so we use hemp milk. From what I’ve seen hemp seeds are usually low unless grown in contaminated soil, which is not usually the case for seeds grown for food use.
Thank you!