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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).
Reading #1) Center of food surface of dish — green area
90-second reading
- Lead (Pb): 1,006 +/- 14 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 179 +/- 3 ppm
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): 8,169 +/- 169 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 1,189 +/- 42 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 607 +/- 25 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 23 +/- 7 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 6,042 +/- 56 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 801 +/- 303 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 9 +/- 2 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 72 +/- 4 ppm
- No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.
Reading #2) Edge of food surface on dish — red area
60-second reading
- Lead (Pb): 61 +/- 11 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 765 +/- 12 ppm
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Manganese (Mn): 325 +/- 82 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 2,100 +/- 83 ppm
- Cobalt (Co): 282 +/- 34 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 57 +/- 14 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 4.317 +/- 69 ppm
- Selenium (Se): 593 +/- 14 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 1,694 +/- 495 ppm
- Nb: 270 +/- 9 ppm
- Indium (In): 12 +/- 3 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 20 +/- 4 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 39 +/- 21 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 78 +/- 6 ppm
- No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.
Reading #3) White of center food surface for dish
60-second reading
- Lead (Pb): 53 +/- 4 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): 3 +/- 2 ppm
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Manganese (Mn): 159 +/- 65 ppm
- Iron (Fe): 2,039 +/- 66 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 18 +/- 9 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 405 +/- 13 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 8 +/- 3 ppm
- Platinum (Pt): 64 +/- 12 ppm
- Bismuth (Bi): 93 +/- 5 ppm
- No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.
The backmark had similar readings.
More details will be published shortly.
Is it safe to think that the Department 56 Christmas houses, that light up to make a whole village, also have lead? I have a bunch my aunt gave me when I was a kid.