Paparazzi Accessories children’s earrings, Halloween witch hat: 336,300 ppm Cadmium & 2,093 ppm Antimony (both known carcinogens)

Paparazzi Children’s Jewelry Examples
Published: February 16, 2022 — Wednesday

Please read this article (linked) for context about the levels of metals found in this jewelry. More information will be published shortly.

These earrings would be illegal in the State of California if sold there anytime beginning June 1, 2020 (or later). The reader who sent them to me was from California.

Children’s Paparazzi Halloween witch hat earrings,
30-second test

• Lead (Pb): non-detect
• Cadmium (Cd): 336,300 +/- 800 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Copper (Cu): 628,200 +/- 800 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 27,600 +/- 300 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 2,893 +/- 652 ppm
• Niobium (Nb): 1,355 +/- 46 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 771 +/- 62 ppm
• Antimony (Sb): 2,093 +/- 325 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 613 +/- 173 ppm
• No other metals were detected in consumer goods mode.

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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).