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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November 9, 2023 — Thursday
The work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC was featured in The Guardian (again!) this week! Our work was last featured in the Guardian in December 2022 — link — perhaps this will become an annual event! 😉
Please click the image below to read the full article, it is incredibly well written and I love all the photos of the Lead Safe Mama, LLC collection of Lead-contaminated stuff! (Note: Some of the items pictured are Lead-free and the article discusses this!)
Most of the Lead-contaminated glassware featured in this article was donated to our collection by Lead Safe Mama friends and readers. Thank you to everyone who has made important contributions to our work in this way. We actually currently have two storage units full of Lead-contaminated consumer goods and the photographer with The Guardian met me at the Lead Safe Mama storage units so I could show her all the examples she might want to photograph for the article.
Here’s Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s Amazon affiliate link for the home test kit I used for the Care Bear glass shown in the article (intended for use on house paint, not intended for use on consumer goods but will work on some painted vintage glassware) https://amzn.to/3Sux8lq (on sale as of the date of publishing this piece).
Hi, great article. I’m curious though if the green glass in the bottom left of the picture is positive for lead? It looks like drinkware I bought at target around 2016 or so.
Thanks
I would like to buy a new, lead-free set of dishes. I think I have found one but I wonder if you know of any USA made white dishes that truly are safe for children to use.
The one I think might be safe is Corolla made in Corning, NY but I can’t find a telephone number for the company and that gives me some concern.
My daughter told me that you are the expert on lead-free products. Hope you can advise me.
Thank you
Jean Potter