Affiliate link for the day: Scissors

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Introduction (for those new to this website):

Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (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. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023.

June 12, 2022 — Sunday
Scissors: https://amzn.to/3O9tDeF (aflink)

First, let me just say that I don’t have a huge concern for Lead in scissors — I have tested probably hundreds of different examples, and don’t recall once finding any Lead!
 
I just bought these (pictured, and on sale today) for my festival booth “kit” https://amzn.to/3O9tDeF, but I also bought and love these (and use them for more than just haircuts): https://amzn.to/3ztUcat.
 
Given “adult” scissors are by nature sharp and dangerous, I don’t have Lead concerns for minor components on any particular scissors that may include brass or aluminum trim — because I do not expect kids will be playing with them. I only have concerns about Lead on the painted handles of some antique scissors — but even the examples of those that I have tested so far have been Lead-free (not that all will be Lead-free, but the examples I have tested have been)!
 
I think “industrial” shears that one might find on a farm or in a workshop will be more likely to have Lead paint on the handles, however, since scissors are not regulated in that context as those kinds of scissors/shears are not items intended for use by children. AND, since Lead paint might have been applied — as it is to so many industrial tools — to protect the tools, which are typically made of quick-rusting carbon steel (which holds an edge better than than the stainless alloys typically used for “consumer”/“non-industrial” scissors) from rust. So do be wary of old (and new) shears and scissors with painted handles — as those could be Leaded!
 

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  1. Unfortunately I have gotten counterfeit Fiskars and Westcott scissors from Amazon. Wonder if those could be more likely to have lead?

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