Link to this product on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3is9YYU
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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).
When tested with an XRF instrument, the steel wool scrubby balls — brand unknown (pictured here) — had the following readings:
60-second test
- Chromium (Cr): 80.900 +/- 1,700
- Bismuth (Bi): 81 +/- 36 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 813 +/- 211 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 1,268 +/- 351 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 911,500 +/- 2,200 ppm
- Manganese (Mn): 3,543 +/- 867 ppm
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Thank you, Tamara!
Yes, I had my husband look up the link for these in his order history on amazon. Here is the exact link: https://amzn.to/3bVIZDG
Now, the packages is in all Chinese – just like the reviews state. There were no English writings on the bag, just Chinese characters, so I could not even identify the brand…
I am pleasantly surprised that these tested negative for all four heavy metals. Husband and I “fought” over these for a long time. He wanted to use them, and I asked him not to use them since I was sure it had lead, so I sent them to you to resolve our dispute, :).