Another favorite “toy” of my 13 year-old-son — Archie McPhee 11761 Accoutrements Yodeling Pickle: Lead-Free, Cadmium-Free, Arsenic-Free

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Here’s an 11-second video of this toy in action.

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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. We test items 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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Archie McPhee Yodeling Pickle

While we generally avoid plastic toys and battery-operated toys in our house — every now and then we make an exception for something particularly useful OR particularly ridiculous. This yodeling pickle falls into the ridiculous category and has been one of Charlie’s favorites (it normally results in everyone cracking up at how ridiculous it is, but WARNING: as with any battery-operated toy that makes a repetitive noise, it can be incredibly annoying if use is not restricted! LOL!) 

Only accessible components were tested (no destructive testing methodology was used — so this means the test results below are specifically for the outside surface of the pickle). Batteries normally contain Lead, so some battery-operated toys may test positive for Lead when the XRF can read through the surface of the battery below. For the surface component we tested, we did not pick up any Lead (on the surface or suspected read-through to the battery).

Here’s an affiliate link for this pickle: https://amzn.to/3fRhGvu

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Archie McPhee 11761 Accoutrements Yodeling Pickle
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 46 +/- 19 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 91 +/- 10 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 77 +/- 6 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 81 +/- 7 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 254 +/- 6 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 588 +/- 93 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 126 +/- 40 ppm

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Some additional reading that might be of interest:

• This article discussing the testing methodology used on this website.
• An article discussing how to send in an item for testing.
• Things that you can test at home.
• Things that might be better tested with an XRF instrument.

Thanks for reading. Thank you for sharing our work. As always, please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them personally as soon as I have a moment (which may not be right away — but I will try)!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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