Today’s Newsletter (7/19/2023): Six new sets of test results & a Reggae festival!
Six new sets of test results & a Reggae festival!
For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:
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.
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for six product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
- Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!
July 19, 2023
Wednesday
Portland, Oregon
Hey all!
Since I landed back in the U.S. I’ve been working on getting through as much of the testing I have here in my office as I can as quickly as possible. If you sent in your items and haven’t yet seen the test results yet, they should be published in the coming week so please stand by. This newsletter includes links to SIX new articles with consumer goods test results, so please click through the site to see the test results for any items that might be of interest!
This weekend is the Northwest World Reggae Festival (NWWRF) here in Oregon. Lead Safe Mama, LLC is a community partner in this event. NWWRF is one of our oldest outreach collaborations — we have had a Lead Poisoning Prevention Advocacy booth at this festival off-and-on since 2009! Each year we are on-hand to answer questions about childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety while we also host fun, free activities for the kiddos throughout the day — like games, free raffles, face painting, juggling lessons, art activities, and more. This year the festival is over the course of two days (Friday and Saturday). As we do at most of our outreach events, we’re also conducting free consumer goods testing for anyone at the festival who brings any items to test. Here’s the link if you love reggae, good music in general, and enjoying the outdoors with a friendly, peaceful, family-oriented community: https://www.nwwrf.com/. Come say “hello!” I will be there alongside my whole family working the booth (as we do together most years)!
The Lead Safe Mama booth at the NWWRF each year is not paid for or sponsored by any outside agency or grant. Our costs for this community outreach event are covered through funds earned when you read and share the links to articles from the Lead Safe Mama website. Thank you for continuing to support this work in this free and simple way. If you haven’t recently shared one of our article links on your social media pages (or in your social media groups), this would be a great time to do so! The Barbie piece (shared here via our newsletter yesterday and linked below) might be a great one given the buzz this week. Thank you!
I hope to see at least some of our Pacific Northwest friends at the festival this weekend!
Tamara Rubin
Owner — Lead Safe Mama, LLC
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