Vintage Costume Jewelry Golden/ Brass Horse Pin: 34,400 ppm Lead (90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids)

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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).

The posts published today are placeholders ONLY containing the XRF data for the item pictured. They will be updated with more details ASAP. 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.

Golden/ Brass Horse pin Pictured
60-second test

• Lead (Pb): 34,400 +/- 300 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Copper (Cu): 109.300 +/- 600 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 55,400 +/- 400 ppm
• Nb: 205 +/- 32 ppm
• Silver (Ag): 757 +/- 33 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 761,100 +/- 1,700 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 16,300 +/- 200 ppm
• Barium (Ba(: 2,616 +/- 404 ppm
• Gold (Au): 19,700 +/- 300 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 280 +/- 68 ppm
• No other metals were detected.

Some additional reading that may be of interest:

• A link discussing the testing methodology we use here on the website.
• A menu with buttons to various different categories of the information you can find on this site.
• A link to my documentary feature film on childhood Lead poisoning.
• A short video that shows you how to search this site.
• Here are some things you can test at home with a LeadCheck swab.
• And then, 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