EWG continues to give Lead-contaminated products high-ratings in 2025 — Here’s the letter we sent

  

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Published March 11, 2025 — Tuesday:

In response to a question in the Lead Poisoning Prevention with Lead Safe Mama Facebook Group today (image at the top of this page), I decided it was time to follow-up with EWG on this matter — as the new Washington State Toxic-Free Cosmetics Law is finally in effect (enforceable as of January 2025) and we had not heard back from EWG in quite some time, yet they are still offering toxic (Lead-contaminated) products on their website and giving many of those unsafe products fairly high safety ratings. Here’s the letter I sent (please see three screenshots below — you can scroll down to read each and check out the four attachments included with the letter, which are screenshots from the EWG website taken today):

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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 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 news coverage of our work, linked here.

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