Blown glass pipe: Lead-free, 12 ppm Cadmium (safe by all standards, metals at this level are likely bound in the glass)

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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 of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

Test over portion with white stripes:

• Titanium (Ti): 148 +/- 64 ppm
• Silver (Ag): 12 +/- 6 ppm

2nd test over portion with white stripes:

• Titanium (Ti): 169 +/- 99 ppm
• Silver (Ag): 14 +/- 7 ppm
• Palladium (Pd): 8 +/- 5 ppm

Test over clear portion:

• Titanium (Ti): 140 +/- 54 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 12 +/- 7 ppm

2nd test over clear portion:

• Titanium (Ti): 100 +/- 34 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 236 +/- 120 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 49 +/- 24 ppm

As always, thank you for reading and sharing this work. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama