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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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For links to all six food items we have tested so far that have tested “non-detect” for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic, click the image below (with the big green and pink number six)!

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August 16, 2024 UPDATE:

Please note: One of the reasons we chose this product to test is that — in January 2024 — five other flavors of this product (not grape) were reported to the State of California as positive for Lead (and not being properly labeled). You can find that legal filing here, at this link, with some additional information.

We have not been able to find the actual lab testing that supported the filing (to confirm the allegations in the document) and we have emailed the attorney noted on that paperwork asking for additional information.

We have also just (as of this week) launched fundraising campaigns to test the five products in question for that filing.

Relevant Food Testing Considerations for the OLIPOP Soda Products:

• The grape flavor of the product may have never been positive for Lead (which might be why it was not included in the California case).
• Alternately, all flavors of the Olipop product may have been positive for Lead but the company may have fixed the problem in the seven months since the case was filed with the State of California.
• Without additional information (in the form of laboratory test reports) we don’t know either way.
• As with all the testing we conduct, our test results are only relevant for the exact product we tested in the exact flavor (or ingredient configuration) we tested.

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General Rules for Evaluating Food Test Results (in the absence of testing every single product on the market!)

1. Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s “non-detect” findings should never be considered relevant/ applicable across an entire brand or product line.
2. More specifically, Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s “non-detect” findings should never be extrapolated as being possibly relevant for other products from the same brand with different ingredient profiles:
   • Example:
     • Jovial Organic Einkorn Flour is negative/ “non-detect” for toxicants
     • Jovial rice pastas and Jovial cassava pastas each tested positive for unsafe levels of toxicants (heavy metals).
3. Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s “non-detect” laboratory findings (for the food testing we are doing) can be reasonably extrapolated as possibly/likely being relevant for other products from the same brand ONLY if the different products have the exact same ingredients.
   • Example:
     • Jacobsen’s Oregon Sourced Kosher Sea Salt likely has the same (or similar) test results as their Oregon Sourced Flake Salt (it is the same single-ingredient product, from the same source in a different form/ shape).
     • However we do not expect Jacobsen’s Italian-harvested sea salt to test the same as their Oregon-sourced sea salts (which is one reason we are working on getting their Italian salt tested separately).
   • Another Example:
     • We are anticipating that the Jovial Organic Einkorn Flour Crackers may test similarly to the Jovial Organic Einkorn Flour product.
4. Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s findings of unsafe levels of Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic and Mercury in specific brands and products should — on the other hand — be extrapolated across a brand in the absence of other testing of products from that brand (especially if the products generally have similar base ingredient profiles — even if some ingredients are different).
   • Example #1) we expect all Simple Mills Sweet Thins (in different flavors) to test similarly toxic (have similar heavy metal profiles) as the base ingredients are the same.
   • Example #2) we expect all Seven Sundays Sunflower Cereals (in different flavors ) to test similarly toxic (have similar heavy metal profiles) as the base ingredients are the same.

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Published: August 13, 2024

MORE good news, Everyone!

• OLIPOP Sparkling Tonic in Classic Grape Flavor is now officially the SIXTH food product we have tested and reported on that resulted in “Non-Detect” for the four metals of concern that we are looking at with this community-funded laboratory testing Lead Safe Mama, LLC is conducting.
• Here is our affiliate link for the exact product we tested: https://amzn.to/4cjJxPm
• 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 restrictive and health-protective standard proposed for heavy metal contamination of foods to date).
• 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, Simple Mills, and others) that are defending 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/4cjJxPm

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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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Amazon links are affiliate links. If you purchase something after clicking on a Lead Safe Mama, LLC Amazon affiliate link, Lead Safe Mama, LLC may receive a percentage of what you spend — at no extra cost to you.

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Lab report for the OLIPOP Sparkling Tonic (in Classic Grape flavor) product pictured: