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!
Conversation with Mama Janice in Canada, December 2020
In this episode of “Ten Minutes With Tamara” Janice and Tamara have a conversation covering a range of topics related to the concern for Lead in schools, including: School renovations, testing children, communicating with your school if they are doing renovations, regulations around the concern of renovating pre-1978 schools, and more. Thank you for watching (scroll down for the video!)
Hi Tamara. I am considering a daycare that was built in the 1970s residential building in Canada (Ontario). They did renovations to the homes in the 1990s. Should I be concerned about lead paint or lead in other parts of the building? On the exterior of the building, I noted that the paint on the garage doors is chipping. The windows look “old” (probably 1970s original windows). There is a brick fireplace on the interior. Here are some pics: https://www.buildingblockschool.com/fourth-line-gallery/