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 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
Published: December 21, 2020
Introduction
For each article here on LeadSafeMama.com, there are category keyword tabs at the top of the page. Each of those words is a link to the category, and you can get to that category overview (in which you’ll see all related articles in that category) anytime, by clicking on any of those linked keywords.
I am working on writing summary pieces for each category (like this one), so readers will be able to see all our articles written for some of the more popular categories on the site, easily, at a glance. There are currently more than 30 summaries live on the website — with another 30 in the works. To see all of those in one list, click on the “Summary Article by Theme 2020” keyword at the top of the piece. When you get a list of results with a search, please note that there are only 8 articles shown per page but there is a handy “next page” link at the bottom of the site if your search has more than 8 results (which many do)!
This article has links below to quickly and easily view all of the Glass Milk Bottle pieces on LeadSafeMama.com. But first:
- Here is an important article with a video to help people understand how to Navigate the (more than 2,600) articles with information (including consumer goods test results) here on the site!
- Here’s the category overview link for Glass Milk Bottles. When you click this link it will come up with a set of at least five articles (as of this publishing date), which you can scroll through to see all related articles: Category link.
Reusable milk bottles (normally from a local dairy):
- CALIFORNIA (2019): Straus Family Creamery — (with black writing)
- COLORADO (2021): Longmont Dairy Farm
- OREGON (2018): Garry’s Meadow Fresh — (with red writing)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE (2020): Sherman Farm Milk Bottle
- MAINE (2020): Harris Dairy Farm, Dayton Maine
- MAINE (2020): Smiling Hill Farm Dairy
- VERMONT (2020): Strafford Organic Creamery
A common question with items like this is “but the Lead paint is only on the outside … [of the dish or other food use item] … so why is this a problem?” While this is discussed specifically in some of my milk bottle articles, here’s my general answer to that question: LINK.
- Here’s a piece about how to send an item in for testing (to add it to the database of information here on the website).
- Here’s an article with details on how you can make a contribution in support of this work. Thank you!
Additional important reading if you determine your dishes (or housewares or other consumer goods) may have unsafe levels of Lead:
- Symptoms of Lead exposure in adults (including possibly symptoms of low-level chronic Lead exposure one might experience from eating daily off of high-Lead dishes).
- An answer to the common statement: “But I ate off of these my entire life and I’m fine!”
- An article discussing the potential concerns of daily usage of Leaded dishes for food use purposes.
- A piece discussing why home test kits do not work on most dishes. (They do work on most glass milk bottles, however!)
- An article discussing what you should do with these items now that you know they may have unsafe levels of Lead.
As always, thank you for reading and for sharing our work from LeadSafeMama.com. Please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them personally (as soon as I have a moment!).
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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