Published: October 20, 2024
Sunday
Below is a spreadsheet across two pages (each page is a separate image that can be clicked to see it full size).
This spreadsheet lists all of the foods and supplements that Lead Safe Mama, LLC has tested, to date, pro bono (without compensation to Lead Safe Mama, LLC to cover our costs related to testing and reporting on these items, and without payment to Simple Lab to cover the costs of the independent, third party, laboratory testing of these items). Simple Lab has donated the laboratory services to test the items listed below.
We spent a good part of today working on our food and supplement testing database, so that we can more easily update this list (and other similar lists related to the laboratory testing we are doing) in the future…
In addition to this page listing the testing that has been done pro bono, we are planning on creating several new landing pages here on the website (for different segments of the laboratory testing we have been doing) over the coming days and weeks; our hope is that this will make it easier for Lead Safe Mama community members to find test results for different types of food and supplement products we have tested. This new organizational system will also make it more efficient for us to update these lists weekly.
There are currently (10/20/2024) 54 products listed in the two page spreadsheet below. This includes products we anticipate sending in to the lab this month (October 2024) as part of our ongoing pro bono collaboration with Simple Lab.
Including all 54 items noted on the list below – and not including some of the re-testing we have been doing, for products that needed more than one round of testing for one reason or another – Simple Lab has contributed a retail value (to date) of 54 x $195 in support of this movement ($10,530 in laboratory testing!!!), and – in addition to the many hundreds of hours donated by Tamara in support of this initiative since March of 2024 – Lead Safe Mama, LLC has separately covered about $16,200 in costs (apprx. $300 x 54) related to the testing and reporting for these 54 items (this includes the cost of purchasing the products for testing, as well as a significant portion of the Lead Safe Mama Team’s time working on this food testing project since March of 2024).
The Lead Safe Mama community is so very thankful to the Simple Lab team for making all of this possible! We wouldn’t have started down this path doing laboratory testing of food and supplements without Simple Lab’s generous offer of pro bono lab services in support of our work protecting families everywhere from being exposed to Lead (and other toxicants too!)
If you appreciate the work we do here at Lead Safe Mama, LLC and would like to make a general contribution in support of our initiatives – all the ways to contribute financially (and other ways to support this work as well) can be found on this link.
Thank you.
*Please note the asterisk in the footer of each page of the spreadsheet. A few of the items listed were initially posted as crowd-funded testing campaigns, but were later converted to items on our pro bono list (with the funds that had been donated in support of testing those items allocated to testing another item) as the campaign did not fund after more than a month. You can read more about that here as well – link.
Serina says
Oh my. The last two rounds of food sent to the lab contain way more items that I use regularly than you’ve ever tested at one time before (7!!). I’m extremely grateful you’re testing some mainstream chips even though the results will likely be “hard to swallow”, seeing it in black and white helps me resist the temptation of truly toxic things. I’m already aware chips aren’t good for me but there’s a difference between “not good” and fully unacceptable and some of these foods are coming back inedible. I’m extremely excited to see the results from these last 2 rounds, thank you so much!