More wood-look tile results: Truewood, Navarro, Daltile positive for Lead between 10 ppm and 139 ppm

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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 July 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for six product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
• All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
• Please check out our press page to see some of the news coverage of our work, linked here.

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All readings are conducted multiple times to confirm the results for each component before sharing one full set of the readings for the item pictured.

Please see below the images.

#1) Truewood CreamWood Plank, Porcelain (images above)
60-second test:

• Reading #1 — 131 ppm Lead
• Reading #2 — 139 ppm Lead
• Back of tile — 27 ppm Lead

Full reading set (on glazed surface):

• Lead (Pb): 139 +/- 7 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 1,416 +/- 125 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,954 +/- 77 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 461 +/- 32 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 135 +/- 13 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 11,600 +/- 1,000 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 7,859 +/- 81 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 408 +/- 16 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 44 +/- 23 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

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#2) Navarro BeigeWood Plank, Porcelain (images above)
60-second test:

• Reading #1 — 79 ppm Lead
• Reading #2 — 79 ppm Lead
• Back of tile — 24 ppm Lead

Full reading set (on glazed surface):

• Lead (Pb): 79 +/- 5 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 3,451 +/- 154 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 3,959 +/- 85 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 443 +/- 32 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 193 +/- 14 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 12,900 +/- 100 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 7,517 +/- 76 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 620 +/- 17 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

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#3) Daltile MeadowWood Soft Brown, Glazed Porcelain (images above)
60-second test:

• Reading #1 — 17 ppm Lead
• Reading #2 — 10 ppm Lead
• Back of tile — 17 ppm Lead

Full reading set (on glazed surface):

• Lead (Pb): 10 +/- 4 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 1,921 +/- 130 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 3,455 +/- 82 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 468 +/- 33 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 86 +/- 26 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 192 +/- 14 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 18,900 +/- 200 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 10,700 +/- 100 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 451 +/- 17 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

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Some additional reading that may be of interest:

• Here’s a link discussing the testing methodology used on this website.
• Here’s our menu with buttons to lots of the different information categories available here on the site.
• Check out this link to my documentary feature film on childhood Lead poisoning.
• This short video shows you how to search this site.
• Here’s what you can test at home with a LeadCheck swab
• Here’s what you really cannot test at home (but is better tested with XRF technology)

As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for reading and sharing this work.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama