Zinc and Copper-based decorative measuring spoons that LOOK toxic, but are not!
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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 four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).
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Test result sample set for the spoons pictured
100-second test:
- Lead (Pb): non-detect
- Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect
- Bromine (Br): non-detect
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect
- Nickel (Ni): 83 +/- 31 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 471,200 +/- 600 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 527,500 +/- 700 ppm
- Nb: 690 +/- 31 ppm
- Indium (In): 28 +/- 11 ppm
- Tin (Sn): 189 +/- 16 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 111 +/- 52 ppm
- No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.
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