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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). Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
Full XRF Test Results for the Green Glass Goblet Pictured
Green glass goblet
30-second reading
- Lead (Pb): 371 +/- 16 ppm
- Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): 190 +/- 5 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Iron (Fe): 11,500 +/- 200 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 34 +/- 14 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 148 +/- 12 ppm
- Selenium (Se): 278 +/- 10 ppm
- Titanium (Ti): 5,512 +/- 671 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 14 +/- 7 ppm
- No other metals detected in consumer goods mode.
More details to be posted shortly. If you know more information about the brand of this glass (based on the W) please do let me know. Thank you.
Lori says
This water goblet was made by the Westmoreland Glass Company of Pennsylvania, which closed in 1984. The mark indicates it was likely produced before 1981.
Tamara says
Thank you so much!!!!