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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.
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for five product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
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I am wondering about glass manufactured in China. I am specifically looking at KORKEN Jar with lid but I do not see that on your web site. Do you have any information regarding heavy metals in glass manufactured in China? Thanks for all you do!
Hi – can you share a link with me?
This wasn’t my question but I have the same one!
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/korken-jar-with-lid-clear-glass-90227985/
IKEA has an entire line of these. The gaskets typically have a prop warning due to an additive in the rubber, but don’t say anything about the glass containers.
Have you tested Victoria & beale- atlantis dishes?
Could you test Bobs Red Mills millet and ground flax seed?
Have you tested Laurie Gates dinnerware?
Hi Tamara,
thanks for all of your hard work and dedication in honor of your children! Do you know anything about Nagoya Shokai lead levels on their dishes…specifically the encanto pattern?
Many thanks!
Kelly
Hi! Have you tested Nūby water bottles? Thanks in advance.
Hello , Have you tested https://www.worldmarket.com/search?q=Graupera+Large+Round+Spanish+Terracotta+Baking+Dish+with+Lid&search-button=&lang=null
Thank you for all you do. It’s truly a blessing to have this knowledge when this type of testing is out of reach for most of us to do ourselves. Really appreciate the work you put in!
Thank you
Hi Tamara! I’ve been reading your research for years and am grateful for ‘exposing’ these harmful metals. Can you please tell me if you are aware of lead in Berkey water filters or have tested these? Many thanks!!
I recently became aware of your work and website. I am a physician and environmentalist.
I am so impressed with the thoroughness of your work and high level of your analysis and insight.
I look forward to learning more from you.
Do you accept suggestions about testing products? If so, what is the protocol for new submissions?
Thank you for what you do.
I look forward to introducing others to your work.
Hello! Thank you. Welcome to the community. Here’s how to nominate a product:
https://tamararubin.com/nominate/
Since you are new here I wanted to make sure to share my film with you. I do health-department sponsored trainings (for CEUs) for doctors and others (nurses, educators, etc.) – with the film sometimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbhbwMhs1U&t=367s
Hello Tamara,
I’m a physician, GF and unfortunately recently Lectin-free due to progressive Dupuytrens contracture and trigger thumb that resolved completely after going Lectin free. My GF replacement carbs were loaded. Now that I am enjoying cassava-based pasta, I learn from you it’s lead contaminated. Bummer. Why is it still for sale with such high levels? Any alternatives you know? Thank you for your work.
Hi. I happened to see this and your reference to going lectin free. I had to go lectin and high fiber free for a while but started adding a tablespoon of pureed cooked okra to my morning beverage plus adding the puréed okra to several things that I cooked and after many months, it seems to have allowed my digestive tract to heal. I am able to eat the way I used to, although I haven’t tried popcorn again yet! The okra is barely noticeable in a hot drink of baked goods or soup. Feeling so much better now. Best wishes to you. Oh! Also I can eat organic sourdough bread with no problem now! I can handle organic sugar but white sugar usually gives me an inflammation flare.
That is the $1 B question. Only for having bought imported or foreign language labeled tapioca starch and rice flour at a health food store for a lower price, did I become aware of the cassava plant lead uptake and tapioca testing high in lead. But, here Lead Safe Mama has disclosed something of a pattern. When the lead levels were lower in gf food, the arsenic and cadmium levels were often high. Gluten free food definitely needs better regulation. I have issues with xanthan gum, well known to bother when consumed to excess beyond what is used in condiments, but extremely high in gf food. Given the lack of USDA oversight, and based upon Lead Safe Mama finding lead in PRENATAL & CHILDREN VITAMINS, I think we are being dumbed down and genocided. If we can’t be killed with the wheat supply, they’ve got other methods.
Thank you for sharing. I’m pleased you’ve found a less onerous dietary solution! Sadly, my lectin sensitivity expresses itself in whole body connective tissue inflammation rather than severe GI problems. As I often say now, I’m so high maintenance I can’t stand myself. Lol.
Best wishes.
So all Buckwheat grown in USA is high in cadmium?
Likely.
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