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!
Published: October 20, 2024
Sunday
Below is a spreadsheet spanning across two pages (each page is a separate image that can be clicked to see in full size).
This spreadsheet lists all the foods and supplements Lead Safe Mama, LLC has tested to date, pro bono (without compensation to cover Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s costs related to testing and reporting on these items, and without payment to SimpleLab covering the costs of the independent, third-party, laboratory testing for these items). SimpleLab has donated laboratory services to test the items listed below.
We spent a good part of today working on our food and supplement testing database so we can easily update this list (and other similar lists related to the laboratory testing we are conducting) in the future…
In addition to this page listing our pro bono testing so far, we are planning on creating several new landing pages here on the website (for different segments of this laboratory testing) over the coming days and weeks; our hope is this change 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 (as of October 20, 2024) 54 products listed in the two-page spreadsheet below. This includes products we anticipate sending into the lab this month (October 2024) as part of our ongoing pro bono collaboration with SimpleLab.
Including all 54 items noted on the list below, and not including some of the re-testing we have been conducting for products that needed more than one round of testing for one reason or another, SimpleLab has contributed a retail value (to date) of 54x$195 in support of this movement (that’s $10,530 in laboratory testing!!!). In addition to the many hundreds of hours Tamara has donated in support of this initiative since March 2024, Lead Safe Mama, LLC has separately covered about $16,200 in costs (apprx. $300×54) 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 2024).
The Lead Safe Mama community is so very thankful to the SimpleLab team for making all of this possible! We wouldn’t have started down this path with laboratory testing food and supplements if not for 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) can be found at 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 instead) as the campaign did not fund after more than a month. You can read more about that here as well.
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!
Is anything really safe to eat anymore? It seems like everything has heavy metals/lead. My children eat very little processed foods, and the ones they do are minimally processed. I make all of their snacks as well and it seems like I can’t really win.
It’s just the packaged food that is heavily contaminated. There are several articles with suggested safer choices (and guidelines for making safer choices) linked here: http://www.TamaraRubin.com/Food
Please lobby for changes to food labeling. Companies need to stop getting away with things like “distributed by” and “Made in the USA from the world’s finest ingredients.”
People need to know where the ingredients originate.