Gerry’s Christmas golden reindeer lapel pin: More than 900,000 ppm Lead (90 ppm Lead & up is unsafe for kids)

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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). 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).

From the following website: https://nasvete.com/gerrys-costume-jewellery/

“Gerry’s costume jewelry
History of Gerry’s Creations began with Geraldine Giles in 1950. As established in the peak of the popularity of costume jewelry, Gerry’s Creations have been able to stay on the market for more than 40 years. The main direction, familiar to most collectors of this brand, were Christmas brooches, many of which are included in the costume jewellery catalogs. In addition, among collectors are very popular brooches with the image of animals, birds, butterflies and flowers. Gerry’s was also famous for themed brooches, for example sport series – tennis rackets, bowling, etc., but they are particularly rare. The company ceased operations in 1996. Gerry’s costume jewellery is rare, their antique brooches are for those collectors who love and appreciate jewelry with history.”

XRF test result for the Christmas brooch pictured here:

Lead (Pb): 905,000+/- 3,000 ppm
Antimony (Sb): 73,600 +/- 1,300 ppm
Tin (Sn): 11,000 +/- 500 ppm
Bromine (Br): 1,152 +/- 163 ppm
Copper (Cu): 1,853 +/- 369 ppm

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