My follow-up responses to Strafford Organic Creamery

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).

Here’s a link to the original article.
Their response is linked here.
My follow-up responses are below.

I sent a few quick responses as soon as I got her email tonight…
Here’s my first response around 8:08 p.m. 

Thanks for being in touch Amy!

I just tested another StanPac bottle (from another [dairy] brand): https://tamararubin.com/2021/01/smiling-hill-farm-dairy-maine-glass-milk-bottle-by-stanpac-painted-with-green-black-lead-paint-33600-ppm-lead-90-is-unsafe/

The concern is for micro particulate toxicants. While the article is similar to the piece I wrote for your bottle (I copied your post as a template) I highlighted in the above article the fact that the very low traces of Lead and Cadmium (found in the clear glass / unpainted components) seem to be possible worn pigment – which can be toxic even at levels not noticeable to the naked eye.

Please watch my film for a greater understanding of the issue, here’s the link on Youtube: https://youtu.be/eRKlaC2EjL0

This piece might also be helpful for context: https://tamararubin.com/2019/03/the-sugar-packet-analogy-how-much-lead-dust-does-it-take-to-poison-a-child/

Keep me posted and please connect with / reach out to the other dairies on the site (there are three with StanPac bottles up now and I am going to add a fourth tonight) – perhaps together you can change the industry: https://tamararubin.com/category/stanpac-glass-bottle/

As I said in the article, there is no place for Lead on our milk bottles (or in our kitchens). And if only PART of this is bioavailable Lead, that part is too much.

Tamara E. Rubin
415-609-3182
#LeadSafeMama

Here’s my second response around 8:10 p.m. 

Here’s my third response at 8:15 p.m.