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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).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
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Here’s a link with more info about blood Lead testing.
Second post today — 4/5/2023
#StandWithAmy #LeadCare2 #LeadCareII #MagellanDiagnostics #BloodLeadTesting
Read more about blood Lead testing here.
Is it correct that the problem was found to be contamination of the tubes used for venous blood draw and not the LeadCare II device itself?
Tim Pye
Not exactly – but yes. It was contamination from the stoppers for the tubes used for venous draws. This was an issue generated at the company that manufactured the stoppers for the tubes.
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I’m glad this didn’t affect as many families as they are trying to apparently portray, however, it did sadly affect mine! My child was tested using the venous version of this recalled device twice one year apart, as confirmed by the hospital who apparently switched from using the golden standard mass spectrometry test they always had used and must have purchased this device for in-house venous draws in their lab (money savings I’m sure). What really bothers me is that no one contacted me from the hospital/lab to alert me to get daughter re-tested (and one test was done a couple months prior to the recall, not years prior). I happened upon the recall (somehow!?) and called the hospital where they confirmed the device was, in fact, utilized. This is beyond upsetting as I kept my daughter in a setting after feeling confident I could simply test her blood periodically to see if her exposure in an old building was actually affecting her or not. The second test indicated BLL over 2 which was cause for concern enough but they are stating that the values were being under-reported and that it’s likely she was higher that that! Why didn’t the FDA make the parents aware or mandate the labs alert the test recipients since they’re kids and this is serious stuff?!