Flying Lady #3 – vintage pink Flying Lady golf balls by Spalding: 17 ppm Lead (safe by all standards).

Here’s the general introduction I provide on a lot of my posts, for those who may be new to my work (or have possibly “stumbled upon” my work – while just casually browsing, or conducting more serious research):

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 vintage pink golf balls pictured:

Reading Set #1) on the plain pink area of the ball
120-second (two-minute) reading

• Lead (Pb): 17 +/- 2 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): 31 +/- 2 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Zinc (Zn): 25,000 +/- 100 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 5,583 +/- 69 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 454 +/- 22 ppm
• Gold (Au): 316 +/- 22 ppm
• No other metals detected in consumer goods mode.

Reading Set #2) on the logo area of the ball
60-second (one-minute) reading

• Lead (Pb): 13 +/- 3 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): 29 +/- 3 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Zinc (Zn): 23,200 +/- 100 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 5,345 +/- 91 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 414 +/- 28 ppm
• Gold (Au): 285 +/- 28 ppm
• No other metals detected in consumer goods mode.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama