For those new to this 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 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 green and white hand-blown glass pipe (sold on Amazon by “Horns Bee”) had the following readings:
#1.) Test with a focus on white stripes:
- Barium (Ba): 236 +/- 79 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 372 +/- 110 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 29,800 +/- 1,200 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 292 +/- 81 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 543 +/- 88 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 496 +/- 244 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 365 +/- 81 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 792 +/- 136 ppm
#2.) Second test on white stripes
(more white in the window of the instrument)
- Barium (Ba): 713 +/- 121 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): 301 +/- 133 ppm
- Zirconium (Zr): 47,400 +/- 2,200 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 294 +/- 94 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 655 +/- 108 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 622 +/- 292 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 388 +/- 95 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 867 +/- 160 ppm
#3.) Test with a focus on mostly green areas:
- Chromium (Cr): 922 +/- 76 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 774 +/- 159 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 58 +/- 24 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 141 +/- 36 ppm
- No other metals were detected.
Some additional reading that may be of interest to you:
- More smoking supplies that I have tested.
- More glass pipes that I have tested.
- A background piece, which discusses the testing methodology for the testing done and reported on this site.
As always, thank you for reading and for sharing these articles. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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