Fairies are generally SCARY! Fairy necklace positive for THREE poisons: 53,600 ppm Lead & 7,557 ppm Cadmium & 5,071 ppm Antimony

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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).

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This charm is hard to show in pictures. It is a glass vial full of purple glitter with a small cork in it. A fairy figurine is in the metal that is wrapped around the vial and hanging from a chain with a lobster clasp.

Reading #1) on the metal of the charm

• Lead (Pb): 53,600 +/- 1,100 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 7,557 +/- 293 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 3,709 +/- 475 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 5,071 +/- 305 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 80,900 +/- 900 ppm
• Gold (Au): 937 +/- 413 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 3,032 +/- 519 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 86,200 +/- 1,500 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 757,300 +/- 2,300 ppm

Reading #2) on the clasp of the necklace (it’s a “lobster clasp”).
Lobster clasps like this are often highly Leaded and pose a significant risk as they can be swallowed.

• Lead (Pb): 92,900 +/- 1,400 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 490 +/- 101 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 20,900 +/- 500 ppm
• Selenium (Se): 422 +/- 140 ppm
• Nb: 1,826 +/- 171 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 23,100 +/- 500 ppm
• Gold (Au): 1,816 +/- 395 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 169,400 +/- 1,800 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 685,900 +/- 2,400 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 889 +/- 272 ppm