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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 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 six 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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May 2025 Update
Product Re-Test

With a May 2025 retest of this One Degree Organic Rolled Oats product (in the Yellow and White packaging), the product tested positive for very low traces of both Arsenic and Cadmium. As it did test positive for these two metals (even though the levels are low) we have removed it from most instances of our safer choices list (and are continuing that project of removing it from instances of our safer choices list).

Our “Lab Tested Safer Choices List” only lists products that have come back from the lab with results that are “non-detect” for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic with our most recent round of testing. You can find the most recent version of that list here on this link. That said, this One Degree Organic Rolled Oats product (in the Yellow and White Packaging)  is still the safest organic oat product that we have found yet (from a toxicant profile perspective).

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Key Points:

• LEAD SAFE MAMA, LLC’s LAB TESTED SAFER CHOICES LIST: We have made a commitment to retest items on our Lab Tested Safer Choices List annually (or more frequently) as funding permits.
  • When products on the Lab Tested Safer Choices List are retested and test positive for  toxicants with that retest, they will be removed from the list.
• ONE DEGREE ROLLED OATS: This oatmeal product (specifically the One Degree Organic Rolled Oats in the Yellow and White packaging) is still the cleanest oatmeal product we have tested to date.
  • NOTE: Other similar Oat products from the One Degree brand (which is from Canada) have tested positive for higher levels of toxicants than this “Rolled Oats” product  — only the “Organic Sprouted Rolled Oats” (in the Yellow and White package tested cleanest).
  • Our understanding from the “Clean Source Code” on the packaging – is that the differences in test results (between the different oat products) is due to the fact that One Degree has different farms producing each of these different types of oats.
  • We will be publishing an overview article shortly to share more details about that.
• ONE DEGREE QUICK OATS: Specifically the Organic Quick Oats (blue and white package) from this brand tested positive for a very high level of Cadmium (a concerning level that was not addressed favorably by the company when they were made aware of our most recent lab report).
  • To reiterate what was said above: the Organic Quick Oats product (Blue and White Package) appears to be sourced from a different farm than the Organic Rolled Oats product (Yellow and White Package).
  • Lab report for this product can be found here.
• ONE DEGREE STEEL CUT OATS: The One Degree Organic Steel Cut Oats – in the Red and White Packaging (also likely produced by a different farm than either the One Degree Organic Quick Oats or the One Degree Rolled Oats), also tested positive for a considerable amount of Cadmium (yet a level of Cadmium that is significantly different than we found in the One Degree Organic Quick Oats – indicating likely different levels of Cadmium contamination in the soil between the different farms) . Lab report for this product will be published shortly.
• CADMIUM CONTAMINATION: It is our understanding that Cadmium contamination in Organic crops comes from the use of Phosphate Rock fertilizers. It is our hypothesis that — given these Oat products are coming from different farms —each farm is using different amounts of this Cadmium-contaminated Phosphate Rock fertilizer – which may explain the range of Cadmium contamination between farms. We asked One Degree to look into this concern but they indicated they have no intention of doing so.
• Bob’s Red Mill Organic Rolled Oats tested positive for a higher level of Cadmium than the re-test for this One Degree Organic Rolled Oat Product, so the One Degree Organic Rolled Oat Product is not only still the cleanest of the products from One Degree that we have tested to date, but is also still the cleanest of all Oat / Oatmeal products we have tested to date. Here’s the lab report for the Bob’s Red Mill product.

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Published: June 30, 2024
Updated: August 13, 2024

MORE good news, Everyone!

• One Degree Organic Gluten Free Sprouted Rolled Oats is now officially the SECOND food product we have tested and reported on that resulted in “Non-Detect” for the four metals of concern we are looking at during this testing.
• Here is our affiliate link for the exact product we tested: https://amzn.to/3VNsfnv
• What these test results mean is that this product tested “effectively negative” for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic.
• We say “effectively negative” because, as with all laboratory testing, there is a “low threshold of detection” the testing is capable of — and within the context of this low threshold of detection for the testing we completed, this product did not test positive for these four toxic heavy metals.
• While the product could possibly still have heavy metals at trace (very low) levels BELOW our laboratory’s low threshold of detection, it is very important to note that NOT ONLY did this product test non-detect for heavy metals (given our lab’s low threshold of detection), but our lab’s low threshold of detection for the testing and reporting done on this product ALSO falls well below the Action Levels for toxic heavy metals recommended by the scientific and medical community in the proposed Baby Food Safety Act of 2021.
• The MOST IMPORTANT piece of information to share here (the MOST IMPORTANT outcome of testing this product) is that it serves as yet another piece of SOLID EVIDENCE (clearly-demonstrated scientific evidence) that the proposed Action Levels (included in the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021) are ACHIEVABLE. This is useful information in challenging all the food companies (Lesser Evil, Serenity Kids, Cerebelly, Selina Naturally, and others) that are defending the unsafe levels of heavy metals we have found in their “healthy” or “Purity Award Winning,” and otherwise touted as “safer,” products.

Here’s the affiliate link again for this food product: https://amzn.to/3VNsfnv

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Links to Laboratory Test Reports for Other Cereal/ Breakfast Food Products we Have Tested

1. Cascadian Farm Organics Purely O’s
2. LoVEBiRD Grain Free Cereal
3. Cerebelly Blueberry Smart Bars (cereal bars)

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Some additional reading & links that may be of interest:

1. This is the Lead Safe Mama affiliate link to purchase the test kits we used for this testing.
2. Here’s our landing page with links to all the food test results for products we have tested and reported on so far.
3. Here’s our landing page listing all of the food testing we have in-progress (at the lab/ pending, etc). Please consider making a contribution in support of any of the pending crowd-funded foods if they are a food you use! Thank you.
4. Here’s information on how to send your own food samples into a lab for testing (the cost is $195 per single food sample tested for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic) and how to collaborate with Lead Safe Mama, LLC on the food testing we are hosting.

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Lab report for the organic rolled oats product pictured: