Please sign this petition demanding that Lansinoh remove the Lead paint from their glass baby bottles and issue a highly visible public recall for all the Lead painted baby bottles they have sold to date:
https://chng.it/DX7ySBSwx7
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.
On March 3, 2023, nearly exactly one month after filing a violation report (about Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s findings of Lead paint on Lansinoh brand glass baby bottles — you can read that full report here) I received the following response from the CPSC:
Tamara Rubin,
On Friday, March 03, 2023, the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission sent your Report No. 20230204-7705B-2147350942 to the manufacturer or private labeler of the consumer product described in your Report. If you consented to give your contact information to the manufacturer or private labeler, that information was also provided.
What can a manufacturer ask me about my Report?
If the manufacturer or private labeler has your contact information, they may contact you to verify the information in your Report. A manufacturer or private labeler cannot use or disseminate your contact information for any purpose other than to verify the information in your Report. A manufacturer or private labeler may not use contact information received from the CPSC for activities such as sales, promotion, warranty, or any other commercial purpose. This requirement does not prevent you from contacting a manufacturer or private labeler for any purpose or from seeking a resolution from the manufacturer or private labeler, if you so desire.
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Here’s a screenshot of that response as well:
As of the moment of publishing this article (3/9/2023 — Thursday, 5:57 p.m.), there is not yet any mention of the Lead paint on Lansinoh brand glass baby bottles on the CPSC’s website (see the screenshot of search results below), nor on the Lansinoh website. Although it does appear that Lansinoh may have removed the glass bottles from their website shop, the glass bottles (with what appears to be the same Lead-painted logo and measurement markings) can still be purchased on Amazon (af-link: https://amzn.to/3YAQ2X6 — DO NOT BUY THESE — the link is being shared here to demonstrate that this contaminated product is still available for sale).
It is important to note that this issue (for this specific product) was also reported to the CPSC (by Lead Safe Mama, LLC) in December 2021 (link to that letter). This initial report was 15 MONTHS AGO, yet there is still no recall for these Lead-painted glass baby bottles.
At issue is the CPSC’s Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008’s paint and coatings rule, which states that the paint or coating of an item manufactured for use by children should not test positive for Lead at levels above 90 ppm. The light purple (violet) painted logo/decorations & measurement markings of the glass bottles from Lansinoh test positive for Lead at levels above 3,500 ppm when tested with an XRF instrument. The paint also tests positive for traces of Cadmium, a known carcinogen. The exact language from the CPSIA regarding paint standards for items intended for use by children can be seen in the second image below. The third and final image below is offered as clarification on the definition of what a “Children’s Product” is. There is no question that a baby bottle is a “Children’s Product” and there is no question that the Lead levels in this paint exceed the legal limits as set by the CPSIA of 2008.
Please consider signing the petition linked at the top of this page if you agree that there is no safe level of Lead exposure for children and that any and all Lead painted baby bottles should be removed from the market immediately. Thank you.
Image showing “No results for ‘Lansinoh'” when searched for on the CPSC recall pages.
Hi,
We loved the lansinoh bottles. We had almost 20 between our house and Grandma’s house. We were about to buy 12 more (twins, and wishing to wash only once a day). We could not find any of them anywhere. Eventually I came to your website.
I’m pretty pissed.
I made a video of me testing using off-the-shelf lead paint testing kit materials…
These tests are not very sensitive and still tested positive!
The video has low production quality. If I sent it to you would you edit it and put it on YouTube? People need to know.
Please email me.
Thank you for commenting – I will be in touch.
T