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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 2009, Tamara has been conducting XRF testing (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).
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February 21, 2024
REMINDER: Lead Safe Mama, LLC filed a violation report with the CPSC last year (2023) demanding a recall of LEAD CONTAMINATED Pura Kiki insulated stainless steel baby bottles that were sold previously (through at least some dates in 2018) and are still in use in homes today.
Please read the full violation report linked below.
This issue is not relevant to to the non-insulated stainless steel bottles from this brand.
No recall has been issued YET by the CPSC, but the Lead Safe Mama community is demanding a highly visible public recall of the Lead-contaminated version of the Pura Kiki insulated stainless steel bottles. A bottle with the SAME CONSTRUCTION (insulated stainless steel, sealed with Lead) manufactured by GREEN SPROUTS was recalled by the CPSC in November of 2022, so there is a recent precedent for this recall.
Pura asserts that they are now (2023/2024) manufacturing Lead-free baby bottles, however the Lead contaminated bottles (which they manufactured and then sold into 2018 and which were possibly sold by Pura and / or other vendors as late as 2019) can still be found in use in homes today (handed down to younger children).
If you have (or used to have) one of the Lead-contaminated Pura insulated stainless steel baby bottles from the period in question – please file a report with the CPSC at https://www.saferproducts.gov.You can use the language in our report as a guideline.
The more reports that are filed by consumers… the more likely the @uscpsc will be to recall this Lead contaminated baby bottle product – which was manufactured and sold in the decade AFTER the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 was enacted (the decade AFTER it became illegal to sell Lead-contaminated children’s products).
Thank you!
August 2023 CPSC Violation Report:
I also discuss the issue with this product in the PodCast interview just published with Switch Natural:
Cease and Desist Letter for Pura’s Legal Team
In October of 2023, less than two months after we published this report and submitted it to the CPSC (below) the legal team for Pura Stainless sent us a cease and desist letter asking us to take down this report and related articles. You can read that cease and desist letter as well as our responses on this link.
Thankful I only used the non insulated bottles. But it’s ironic isn’t? You think you’re making a good decision buying stainless steel over plastic but they can be just as harmful if not more!
Thank you for taking the time to comment, Jacki!
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For Pura’s information, Lead Safe Mama’s aim is not to harm Pura, it’s to prevent children from being lead poisoned by Pura’s products. And Pura writing cease and desist letters to Lead Safe Mama only lowers the company even further in my estimation.
Is there lead in the bottle? Yes. Do the bottles fail allowing the user to have access to the lead? Yes. That’s all we need to know.
Thanks Tamara for your courage in the face of companies like these trying to intimidate you.
Thank you.
Have you tested the 2023/24 models for lead? This is the only water bottle my daughter will drink from!