Costume jewelry necklace charm with faux ruby & faux pearls: 7,743 ppm Cadmium + 36,100 Antimony + 51,700 Lead

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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). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the test results for each component tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

Focus on red “gemstone” (faux ruby)

• Cadmium (Cd): 7,743 +/- 276 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 13,300 +/- 600 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 964 +/- 101 ppm
• Selenium (Se): 1,290 +/- 126 ppm
• Bromine (Br): 124 +/- 42 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 3,586 +/- 146 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 45,200 +/- 1,500 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 1,601 +/- 99 ppm

Focus on area with white “gemstones” (faux pearls)

• Lead (Pb): 51,700 +/- 7,700 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 36,100 +/- 5,200 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 497,900 +/- 70,000 ppm
• Gold (Au): 24,300 +/- 4,000 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 15,400 +/- 3,000 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 270,500 +/- 38,000 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 1,980 +/- 614 ppm

Fringe on bottom of fob

• Gold (Au): 3,873 +/- 387 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 3,978 +/- 313 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 72,600 +/- 2,900 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 19,300 +/- 800 ppm