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 five 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!
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Published: November 4, 2023
I was asked (by a supporter of my work) about whether — and to what degree — I thought I was “directly helping families.”
In response to this inquiry, I thought that the best words to share would be the words of people who have been helped by this work. I posted in the Lead Poisoning Prevention With Lead Safe Mama Facebook group, inviting members to share any stories about how my work (or the work of the Lead Safe Mama community more broadly) has specifically helped them protect their families, so I could share it here. The comments people made in response to that post are below. Thank You to everyone who commented. If you have not yet commented and would like to, please add a comment in the comments section below on this article.
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I missed this on Facebook, but also want to say that just by reading Tamara’s blog I have learned so much and it has directly affected what I buy/keep/use in my home. Like others, I had no idea lead was so prevalent in both new and vintage items. Tamara is doing what the government should be doing, protecting us from getting lead into our bodies. Tamara is a testament to the impact one person can do, from educating us so we can protect our families to getting items recalled, she has certainly lowered the lead levels getting into surely thousands of people’s bodies. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, thank you so much for the work you do!