Horns Bee aluminum “stash canister”: 19 ppm Cadmium but Lead-free, Antimony-free & Arsenic-free

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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).

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When tested with an XRF Instrument the”stash canister” pictured here (sold on Amazon by “Horns Bee”) had the following readings — in addition to aluminum:

#1.) Test on the exterior of the canister:

• Cadmium (Cd): 19 +/- 7 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 334 +/- 69 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 77 +/- 26 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,111 +/- 268 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 185 +/- 50 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 280 +/- 68 ppm
• no other metals were detected

#2.) Test on the clip:

• Chromium (Cr): 198 +/- 91 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 158 +/- 47 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 2,525 +/- 124 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 505 +/- 157 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 114 +/- 45 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 127 +/- 55 pm

Some additional reading that may be of interest to you:

• Other smoking supplies I have tested.
• More glass pipes I have tested.
• My background article discusses the testing methodology for the testing conducted and reported on LeadSafeMama.com.

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

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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