For those new to the Lead Safe Mama 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 four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
- Since 2009, Tamara has been conducting XRF testing (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
- Items that Lead Safe Mama, LLC reports on are tested multiple times to confirm the results published (for each component tested).
- Recent notable press… There has been too much to mention already in 2024! Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!
These posts today are placeholders JUST with the XRF data for the item pictured. They will be updated with more details a.s.a.p. All readings are done multiple times to confirm the results for each component before sharing one full set of the readings for the item pictured.
Food surface of the dish:
60-second test
- Lead (Pb): 280,100 +/- 6,700 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 232 +/- 28 ppm
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromium (Br): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): 801 +/- 125 ppm
- Vanadium (V): 646 +/- 333 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,052 +/- 79 ppm
- Nickel (Ni): 121 +/- 39 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 172 +/- 77 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 1,230 +/- 46 ppm
- Arsenic (As): 1,124 +/- 353 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 997 +/- 406 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 4,659 +/- 131 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 1,463 +/- 200 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 435 +/- 239 ppm
- No other metals were detected.
Some additional reading that may be of interest:
- A link discussing the testing methodology used here on this website.
- A menu with buttons leading to lots of different categories available here on the website.
- A link to my documentary feature film on childhood Lead poisoning.
- The short video that shows you how to search this site.
- A list of things you can test at home with a LeadCheck swab.
- And a list of some things you really cannot test at home (better tested with XRF technology).
As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for reading and thank you for sharing these results.
Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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