Dollar Store clear plastic phone case with glitter: Lead-free, Cadmium-free, Arsenic-free, Mercury-free.

Introduction:

Tamara Rubin is a Federal award winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead poisoning prevention. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009, and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses XRF testing (a scientific method used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for metallic toxicants (including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic). To read more about the testing methodology employed for the test results reported on this blog, please click this link.

XRF test results for the Dollar Store glitter-encrusted plastic phone case pictured:

Reading #1.) Sparkled outer surface of case
60-second reading

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 147 +/- 11 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 18 +/- 4 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 13 +/- 3 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 4,828 +/- 132 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 18 +/- 8 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 202 +/- 41 ppm

Reading #2.) Clear plastic edge of case
30-second reading

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Iron (Fe): 25 +/- 12 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 11 +/- 7 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 176 +/- 58 ppm