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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 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
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Test results for Sundance Pony G1 (first generation) My Little Pony (MLP) figurine.
Here’s a link to the My Little Pony Wiki page for the doll pictured. Below are the XRF test results for the doll pictured. To date, all of the My Little Pony dolls that I have tested (both vintage and new) have been negative for Lead.
XRF focused on pink hearts of cutie mark
30-second test
- Silver (Ag): 10 +/- 5 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 539 +/- 57 ppm
- Indium (In): 23 +/- 9 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 17,200 +/- 2,600 ppm
XRF focused on blue of eye
60-second test
- Palladium (Pd): 10 +/- 3 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 966 +/- 60 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 284 +/- 44 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 710 +/- 143 ppm
- Indium (In): 31 +/- 8 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 155,000 +/- 4,600 ppm
XRF focused on plain white of pony
60-second test
- Silver (Ag): 12 +/- 4 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 626 +/- 53 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 103 +/- 43 ppm
- Indium (In): 26 +/- 8 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 9,328 +/- 899 ppm
XRF focused on pony’s pink hair
60-second test
- Silver (Ag): 15 +/- 3 ppm
- Nb: 1,752 +/- 37 ppm
- Bromine (Br): 17 +/- 3 ppm
- Palladium (Pd); 12 +/- 3 ppm
- Gold (Au): 68 +/- 29 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 166 +/- 34 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 84 +/- 17 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 119 +/- 29 ppm
- Indium (In): 43 +/- 7 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 1,955 +/- 304 ppm
Some additional reading that might be of interest:
- To see more My Little Pony type dolls we have tested, click here.
- To see more vintage toys we have tested, click here.
- To read more about the concern for Lead in toys, click here.
- To learn about the testing methodology used for all of the test results reported on this website, click here.
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As always, thank you for reading and for sharing this work. 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 kid-free moment, moments that are currently few and far between because I have not had childcare since March, at the beginning of the pandemic)!
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama 
Interesting. Have you tested cabbage patch kids? I have a couple boxed up from my childhood…hesitant to let my daughter play with them.