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 July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for five product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
- Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!
Published: April 18, 2020
For each article I write, there are category keyword tabs at the top of the piece. Each of those words is a link to the category and you can get to that category overview (to see all the articles in that category) anytime by clicking on any of those words. I am working on writing summary pieces for each category (like this one), so readers will be able to see all the articles we have published for some of the more popular categories on the website, easily (at a glance). This is my first attempt at this, so feedback is welcome. Please let me know if these summary pages are helpful. Thank you!
And without further ado… all our glass bottle articles (each numbered line below is a link to a piece with photos and more information, including XRF test results for most items discussed):
Sub-topic: Glass baby bottles
- Green Sprouts, c. 2017 & 2018 — Leaded
- Dr. Browns, c. 2017 — Lead-free
- Hevea. c. 2018 — Leaded
- Avent, c. 2017 — Lead-free
- Nuk, 2018 — Leaded
- Life Factory, all years — Lead-free
Sub-topic: Reusable milk bottles
- Straus Family Creamery, California — c. 2019 (with black writing)
- Garry’s Meadow Fresh, Oregon — c. 2018 (with red writing)
- Testing a Garry’s Meadow Fresh bottle — video.
Sub-topic: Glass water bottles (sold with water)
- Acqua Panna Toscana, c. 2017
- San Peligrino water bottle, c. 2017
- Mountain Valley water bottle, c. 2017
- Mountain Valley clear 5 gallon bottle, c. 2017
- Starkey brand spring water, c. 2017
- Voss bottled water, c. 2018
- Ferrarelle Mineral Water, c. 2019
Sub-topic: Reusable glass water bottles
- Miniso “Enjoy Your Life” reusable water bottle, c. 2019
- MyBKR reusable water bottles, c. 2018
- Boroux reusable water bottle, c. 2018
Sub-topic: Green glass bottles (not linked above)
- California Olive Ranch Extra Virgin Olive Oil bottle, c. 2019
- Stand by for more green glass bottles, to be linked here shortly!
Sub-topic: Blue glass bottles
- Physica Green Light Supplement bottle
- Stand by for more blue glass bottles, to be linked here shortly!
Sub-topic: Amber & brown glass bottles
- Health Ade Kombucha bottle
- Mountain Rose Herbs bottle
- Herb Pharm Immunattack bottle
- doTerra sample bottle, c. 2018
There are so many glass bottle articles here on the website that I have yet to link above. As a result, I am going to consider this piece a work in progress for the time being. As always, thank you for reading.
Thank you for being here, and thank you for sharing this work!
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
Diana says
Wow did you email the baby bottle companies? I specifically purchased a Hevea bottle for my baby because of their natural rubber nipple. Sad to see the exterior glass is leaded.
Tamara says
Yes – I communicated with them. The new Hevea bottles (in the past year or so) should be Lead-free.
Tamara
CA US 1 says
Would be amazing to test mountain valley 5 gallon again 2022 for peace of mind also wondering if you have ever tested ball jars or water dispensing jars . Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do
Carrie says
Have you ever tested GTs Kombucha bottles or Kevita bottles? I filter my water and reuse those bottles to fill with filtered water as grab & go water bottles.
Michelle Russell says
Great question! I do the same. Tamara any answer? Thank you♥️