Video #2 of 3 from Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-exposed Child

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On Christmas Eve, I had a great video chat with Jon Fishman (drummer for the band Phish) about “all things Lead” (including discussing his experience with his child’s Lead exposure). The video below is the second of three “Ten Minutes With Tamara” video segments from this interview. Please check out all three of the videos. You can find them here on the website (linked), or on the Lead Safe Mama YouTube channel. Thank you for being here! I hope you are having a great start to the New Year!

Part 2 of the Jon Fishman Christmas Eve Interview… topics include:

• Jon shares the story of his kiddo’s Lead exposure
• We chat about when we met! 😉
• Jon talks about things we tested at his house that were positive for Lead (a doll house, his baby dish)
• We talk about the issue of different testing thresholds for childhood Lead poisoning in different states
• I ask a question from (Rena) a reader… 
• Jon talks about issues he experienced with people in the industry of Lead hazard remediation & testing (when he worked on cleaning up the Lead in his house in Maine after his kiddo tested positive), and gives parents tips for what to do when they go through this
• We discuss the new federal standards for Lead in house dust (the level at which Lead in dust is considered toxic has just been lowered in December 2020)

You can also check out all of the videos in the Ten Minutes With Tamara video series on YouTube, including interviews with parents from around the globe (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States are represented so far)! Click here!

For a deeper dive into the issue of childhood Lead poisoning, the full documentary feature film that I produced and directed (with some help from Jon Fishman as an executive producer, too!) can be seen at the following YouTube link (please subscribe there, too, to get alerts about future videos!): https://youtu.be/eRKlaC2EjL0.

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Thanks again! Happy New Year!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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). All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times to confirm the test results for each component tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).

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