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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). 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 tested. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023 (March 2023 print edition).
Tamara I’m now reading about Pfas in parchment paper. What the hell!!!? How can’t all of us be so highly poisoned with all the products we use daily in our lives that are tainted. From baby bottles to vitamins to mattresses to our chocolates plain ole foods root vegetables etc. oh and the list can go on. Even though there is a limit of what levels of poisons are allowed, WHAT, ok, they each add up. Tamara can you figure out what the average daily level of poisons are taken in each day by us as adults. Just a quick average? I’m over whelmed and I bet you are as well.
Thanks in advance.
Very good piece. Thank you for sharing. I read that a lead crystal glass can be identified by applying some white vinegar and leaving it overnight. I tried this https://leappalliance.org.uk/testing-for-lead-in-a-crystal-glass/
Also note that a lead crystal glass that had gone cloudy in the dishwasher causes a colour change without vinegar.