Here’s every link to Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s food testing articles in one place!
Each graphic below is a clickable button that will take you to the article and lab report for the product pictured. Page Under Construction.
Food Testing Index
Section #1) Flours (15)
Section #2) Breads (1/16)
Section #3) Cinnamons (6/22)
Section #4) Prenatal Vitamins (9/31)
Section #5) Children’s Vitamins (9/40)
Section #6) Salt (8/48)
Section #7) Chocolate Candy & Cocoa Powder (16/64)
Section #8) Breakfast Foods & Packaged Breakfast Cereals (17/81)
Section #9) Potato Chips, Corn Chips, & Cassava Chips (10/91)
Section #10) Snack Chips – Not Potato (2/93)
Section #11) Supplements (12/105)
Section #12) Snack Bars / Food Bars / Granola Bars (13/118)
Section #13) Infant Formulas (11/129)
Section #14) Coffees, Teas, & Coffee Creamers (5/134)
Section #15) Beverages: Soda, Juice, & Non-Dairy Milks (5/139)
Section #16) Dairy Products – Cheese, Milk, Dairy-Based Snacks (3/142)
Section #17) Crackers (5/147)
Section #18) Cookies (6/153)
Section #19) Fruit Snacks & Fruit Candy (11/164)
Section #20) Pasta and Mac & Cheese (7/171)
Section #21) Beans, Seeds, Nuts, Nut Flours & Nut Butters (11/182)
Section #22) Rice & Grains (2/183)
Section #23) Fats, Oils, Vinegars, & Sweeteners (8/191)
Section #24) Seaweed Snacks & Nori (4/195)
Section #25) Baby Melts, Baby Puffs & Puff-Type Snacks (16/211)
Section #25) Baby Foods – “Slurries” / Purees (10/221) – SECTION IN PROGRESS
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2024 Food & Supplement Testing Articles
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Thank you for putting these all together in one article! In the article photo, you have a picture of a box of Cascadian Farm Purely O’s. But I can’t seem to find a link for that test. Could you please share that? Thank you! All the work you do is greatly appreciated!
It will be published shortly
I had this same question
Thank you for your work. I had been curious about the Harvest Snaps. I eat the red lentil variety most often and wondered if you have plans to test that one.
Hello! Thank you for commenting! This is AJ (one of Tamara’s sons). I’m helping my mom answer questions.
If you’re interested in nominating a specific product for testing, you can visit this article: https://tamararubin.com/2024/05/how-to-test-food-yourself-via-a-lab-submission-for-lead-cadmium-arsenic-and-mercury/
Scroll down to the “How to sponsor Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s testing of a food product”
section for more information.
You can also email Testing@LeadSafeMama.com with “FOOD TESTING” in the subject line if you (alone or with a group of friends) are interested in sponsoring the testing of a particular food item.
Any safe brands of Cassava flour?
Have you found any baby puffs that are considered “safe” with your testing? I was so disappointed finding out about Serenity Kids because they’re one of the only brands that didn’t have seed oils in their products.
Also, do you have any plans to test organic flours? I tend to use Arrowhead Mills organic unbleached all purpose and/or bread flour for my baking and sourdough.
Thanks!
Thank you for all that you do! This cassava flour issue has me so bummed out, but I’m so grateful for the chance to learn through you. Question: is tapioca and arrowroot equally as problematic? If so, Simple Mills products, some of our fave GF options, may have to leave our pantry, too 🙁 …
Where do you list better alternatives?
Hi Jill – we have 44 food related articles, many have suggestions for better choices: https://tamararubin.com/category/food-water-salt-candy/
Hi Tamara! Thank you for all you do! Are the test results based on a serving size, or are they based on the entire package?
Thank you again for your valuable research!
Hi.
That’s not how parts per million or parts per billion works.
If you have any quantity of an item (a package, a serving size or a teaspoon) and divide that (theoretically) into 1,000,000 equal parts (or a 1,000,000,000 equal parts) – then the ppm (or ppb) is the number of parts of the whole that would be that toxicant (in theory). It’s best not to look at package size or serving size as considerations, but instead compare the ppb levels of the product to the levels of concern / action levels that have been proposed by the medical and scientific communities as being protective of children’s health.
The 2021 Baby Food Legislation that was proposed (but not passed due to political pushback) set the following action levels (as levels that would be protective of children’s health). “Action level” meaning the level at-or-above which the presence of this toxicant would be concerning in any food consumed by young children:
2 ppb Mercury
5 ppb Lead
5 ppb Cadmium
10 ppb Arsenic
This is discussed in detail in this article:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/03/lead-safe-mama-llc-tested-baby-foods-one-clean-label-project-purity-award-recipient-tested-positive-for-lead-mercury-cadmium-arsenic/
T
Hi, where can I find the information on the Needed. Prenatal? I can’t seem to find it on your site.
That is wonderfully informative (and terrifying) information. It’s such a shame that legislation didn’t pass…or they didn’t have to put Prop 65 labels on these foods… or publicly called out MadeSafe/Clean Label type organizations for their ‘oversight’, etc. I appreciate your advocacy and going to bat for all of us. Your work has been helping me make better decisions for my family. No one would know these things about the products you test if it weren’t for you. Thank you again
Thank you Serena!
T
Where can I find the Test results for the one degree oatmeal
Here. When they have been published.
Here’s the status page:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/food-testing-fundraising-campaigns-update-june-21-2024-batch-3-of-lead-safe-mama-llc-food-testing/
Tamara
Hi, where are the links for the active GoFundMe’s? I would like to donate and can’t find where they are. Thank you 🙂
Thank you. They are linked at the top of the website menu: https://tamararubin.com/website-menu/
I can not find where you posted a list of the foods you and your family eat right now…However, I recall you posted you eat nutritional yeast on your popcorn. You may want to have the brand or brands of nutritional yeast you use tested.
https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/three-brands-of-nutritional-yeast-contain-detectable-lead-levels-but-the-risk-is-minimal/
Hi!
Is there a list that includes ALL of the SAFE food products in 1 list?
It is becoming very overwhelming. I may not be searching properly either!
Thank you!
Susan
There are only two processed food items that we tested that were non-detect & they are linked above. Here’s another link that may be helpful:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/are-you-suffering-from-snack-paralysis-are-you-concerned-that-all-snacks-test-positive-for-lead-here-are-some-safer-snack-ideas-for-your-kids/
This might also be helpful:
https://tamararubin.com/2023/03/my-favorite-organic-coffee-some-of-my-thoughts-related-to-choosing-safer-lead-free-foods/
And this too:
https://tamararubin.com/2017/03/which-foods-have-lower-lead-levels-tamaras-food-list-including-foods-we-try-to-avoid-at-all-cost/
All of these links can be found on the website menu. Section 14 is the food section of the menu (scroll down):
https://tamararubin.com/website-menu/
Good morning,
Thank you for your work. Is there an overall spreadsheet that could be downloaded that has all of the products that were tested and the results? I could only find separate test results and would find helpful to be able to glance through a whole file.
Thank you!
Ana
There is a preliminary spreadsheet here: https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/food-testing-fundraising-campaigns-update-all-batches-of-lead-safe-mama-llc-food-testing-2024/
I’m confused. Literally what are we supposed to buy or feed our kids then? According to your testing, almost nothing is safe.
Hi J!
In most of the articles there are links to safer choices.
Start with this link:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/07/lead-safe-mamas-landing-page-for-lab-tested-safer-foods/
And this link:
https://tamararubin.com/2023/03/my-favorite-organic-coffee-some-of-my-thoughts-related-to-choosing-safer-lead-free-foods/
And this link:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/are-you-suffering-from-snack-paralysis-are-you-concerned-that-all-snacks-test-positive-for-lead-here-are-some-safer-snack-ideas-for-your-kids/
T
I am shocked by all of these results. I am looking for SAFE chocolate chips, oats for baking, and cocao powder for baking as well. Do you have any recommendations?
Excellent research work, practically everything modern is contaminated, so what to eat, what to drink.
Thank you for this valuable information, now empowered to make better decisions when buying
Any recommendations on Baking Powder and Baking Soda products? I was using the Otto’s Baking Powder before and now trying to find a replacement given the cassava lead issue.
Thank you for all that you do!
I would like to know as well!
The testing is a great thing you are doing. But finding the results and data is just chaos that is causing many people to just give up and leave.
There is a search bar at the top of every page of the website. Put the company name or product name in the search bar and any related articles will pop right up. You can also check out our new landing page: https://tamararubin.com/food/
Hi there! I thought I saw a test of the hiya greens powder but can’t find it now. (Only the vitamins) If so, could you send me the link?
We have not tested that product. I would not trust anything from this company in light of their public response to our findings (which are consistent with their internal test results).
Tamara
How do we submit new products to test? There is a specific avocado oil I want to test (and am willing to pay for).
Do you want to nominate it for a fundraising campaign? Or cover the full cost? To cover the full cost you can Zelle or Venmo the funds ($550 to cover our cost to rest and report on the testing) to:
Zelle: 502-702-2708
Venmo: TamaraERubin (3182)
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To nominate for a fundraiser that others will contribute to – here’s that info:
https://tamararubin.com/nominate/
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Here’s the budget info if you decide you want to test it yourself (without us reporting on it):
https://tamararubin.com/budget/
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If you decide you want to cover the full cost, please do email me at TamaraRubin@mac.com so I can follow up with you as soon as we have the results, or text me at 415-609-3182.
Thank you.