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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.

Published: December 21, 2023

Hello all! This (image below) is a great book about Lead poisoning (and the corruption around the issue). If you have not read it yet, I recommend it. Here’s the Lead Safe Mama, LLC affiliate link for the book: https://amzn.to/41vf0tY.

The authors of this book (Jerry Markowitz and David Rosner) were also interviewed for my documentary film on the subject and you can watch that film (along with their interviews) for free at this link, here.

I do want to also take a moment to remind everyone that a very simple way to support the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC (our Independent Consumer Goods testing and Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention advocacy work) is to start ANY of your Amazon shopping with a click on one of our Amazon Affiliate links. You don’t need to buy what we link to for Lead Safe Mama, LLC to receive a percentage of what you spend (at no extra cost to you) — you just need to click on one of our links and then go about your shopping as you normally would! Thank you for considering supporting this work in this simple and relatively FREE way (free if you were already planning some shopping on Amazon!)

Most days we earn less than $100 from your Amazon affiliate link clicks, but during the holiday season we have the potential to earn enough to help cover the cost of our work for the summer months — when our website earnings all-but dry up! Given it is the holiday season, yesterday Lead Safe Mama reader’s affiliate link clicks helped us earn $284.78! Our Amazon earnings are paid on a two-month delay, so the funds earned now will start to help cover the costs of our work in February and March!

Thank you for supporting this work in this way!