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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).
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The Scary Reason why you Should Toss Your Vintage Pyrex ASAP
Have you tested melamine dishes, such as Good Housekeeping vintage, also Rubbermaid dishracks and dishpans. Thank You
Melamine is generally Lead-free.
Thank you for your hard work on this site, Anchor Hocking thrift guy claims all clear anchor hocking vintage is lead free. Like punch bowls, all the stuff they used to give people free for coming in their store. The word on lead is really getting out. The problem is they are donating it back to thrift stores instead of throwing it. I threw out a leaded crystal vase probably worth 80 bucks. I don’t want my grandkids to worry about what is left in my house. Getting it out of the thrift stores would help so much. I’m wondering about the covering on the metal of Rubbermaid dish racks and dish pans in various colors. Crayons used to have lead and the colors were much richer I think. Buttons blew me away. How many kids suck on the button eyes of cloth dolls.