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 sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).

• Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
• Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
• Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
• All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
• Items that Lead Safe Mama, LLC reports on are tested multiple times to confirm the results published (for each component tested).
• Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition) and The Guardian in November 2023.

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The latest Lead Safe Mama video interview on YouTube is
embedded below. It’s fun, informative, and just 15 minutes long!
Even I learned something new.

This is a new Lead Safe Mama Interview on YouTube today — September 29, 2023!  It’s a very informative interesting video piece (well researched, too!) that my interview is just a small part of. It’s just over 15 minutes long. There are some scientific contradictions in some statements made but longtime Lead Safe Mama website fans, friends, and followers will spot those right away! Thanks for watching! 

This video references test results for many different McDonald’s collectable glassware pieces. For those who would like ALL the details, here’s a list of each relevant Lead Safe Mama article related to this video:

1. Grimace Glass (1977)
2. Garfield Mug: “Use Your Friends Wisely” (c. 1980)
3. Garfield Mug: “I’m Not The One Who Rises To The Occasion” (c. 1980)
4. Garfield Mug: “It’s Not A Pretty Life But Somebody Has To Live It” (c. 1980)
5. Camp Snoopy Collection Glass (c. 1980s)
6. Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Y2K Filmmaker Glass
7. Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Y2K Dancing Mickey Glass
8. Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Y2K Animal Kingdom Glass
9. Mickey Mouse Disney World 25th Anniversary Glass (1996)
10. Pre-Dawn Flintstones Mug (1993)
11. Cracked dot com article (2022)
12. Glassware Study by Dr. Andrew Turner (2017 — Plymouth, England)
13. Glassware overview article (Why is this a problem?)