Lead Safe Mama, LLC — August 4, 2026 Update

Patreon Update + Trader Joe’s Organic Yellow Mustard Lab Report
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August 4, 2026
Tuesday
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Hello friends!
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We’re back in the “publishing lab reports” mode (while also simultaneously working in the “deal with legal actions” mode!) The link to the newly published article with the lab report for the Trader Joe’s Organic Yellow Mustard is below.
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Our copyright infringement lawsuit against the Oasis app is going to take a bit of time to percolate as we wait for confirmation of the 29 copyright filings that we have processed so far. Our lawyers have also advised us / reminded us that we need to continue filing copyrights for each lab report we publish, but that’s a hard task given we have not yet raised the funds to cover the basic costs of the testing and reporting of many of these products (let alone raised enough to cover the copyright filing fees for all of the new and pending reports), so please do keep those contributions coming — they are very much appreciated and make a big difference.
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As always, we are open to short term loans to help with operating costs (funds to help carry us through to resolution of one of the pending legal actions would be excellent). If you are in a position to help in this way (or know of an organization or institution that may be able to help us in this way), please do be in touch. Texting me is best: 415-609-3182. Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s income is down to about half of what it was last year by this time (largely in response to the orchestrated smear campaign that was expressly designed to create that specific outcome), so we do need to raise the funds to cover basic operating costs for Lead Safe Mama, LLC if we are going to continue doing what we do until we see some resolution in these legal matters.
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At this critical moment in time (while we wait for each of the legal actions to move forward), it would make a big difference if just 75 of our “free” Patreon members would bump their membership up to a paid membership with a gift of $3.00 or $4.00 a month. Perhaps that’s you? Here’s the link to do that for those who are in a position to do so: https://www.patreon.com/leadsafemama/membership
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A summary of our current Patreon contributions and membership can be seen in the image with this update. The total number of Patreon supporters has gone up, while the number of paid Patreon supporters has gone down —however the amount of our total monthly contributed Patreon support has gone up – woot! This is largely in thanks to new people signing up at the $25.00 and $50.00 levels — so please do check those out if you have not yet — especially if you want to have a more active role in choosing what we test and report on!
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Here’s the link with our Patreon update posted on the website today as well:
https://tamararubin.com/2026/08/august-2026-patreon-update/
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At the moment Lead Safe Mama, LLC has the following bills to cover:
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$2,790.00 — in lab testing costs
$726.00 — in website hosting / security and maintenance costs
$100.00 — social media automation app (helps us send out answers to questions automatically on some of our social media posts, so our team can spend time focusing on other critical happenings at Lead Safe Mama, LLC)
$600.00 — in newsletter costs (software / subscription)
+ about $3,500.00 owed to members of the Lead Safe Mama team for their work over the past couple of months.
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Total needed to raise: $7,716.00
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Thanks for considering contributing in any way that makes sense to you! Ways to make a one-time contribution are below as well.
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Here’s the link to the article with our newly published Trader Joe’s Organic Yellow Mustard lab report (more lab reports to follow shortly!):
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https://tamararubin.com/2026/08/trader-joes-organic-mustard/
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Thanks for being here!
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Thank you for supporting the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC in all the ways (and especially in sharing our work in your IRL communities!)
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Tamara Elise Rubin
& The Lead Safe Mama Team
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Ways to make a one-time gift:
(Note: a $65.00 contribution covers our copyright filing fee for one lab report!)
Venmo: @LeadSafeMama
PayPal: Testing@LeadSafeMama.com
Zelle: Testing@LeadSafeMama.com
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/b99dc8f12
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The Lead Safe Mama, LLC Community Collaborative Laboratory Testing Initiative depends on your financial support to continue our work, however as we are not a 501(c)3 nonprofit, gifts are not classified as tax-deductible contributions to charity.
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