2016

2016 GE Brand 7.5 ft Douglas Fir Pre-Lit Artificial Christmas Tree (Illinois): Positive for Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic (low levels), and 2,654 ppm Antimony!

2016 GE Brand 7.5 ft Douglas Fir Pre-Lit Artificial Christmas Tree (Illinois): Positive for Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic (low levels), and 2,654 ppm Antimony!

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  For those new to this 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). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method…

Artificial GE Pre-Lit Christmas Tree Purchased c. 2016 From Home Depot: Lead-Free

Artificial GE Pre-Lit Christmas Tree Purchased c. 2016 From Home Depot: Lead-Free

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  For those new to this 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 sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method…

Stainless Steel Restaurant Supply Chopsticks, c.2016: Lead Free

Stainless Steel Restaurant Supply Chopsticks, c.2016: Lead Free

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Below are the XRF test results for some unbranded stainless steel chopsticks. While the XRF does not recognize this metal combination as a specific type or grade of stainless steel,  and while these are not expressly marked “stainless steel” (in fact there is no mark on them) I would still put them in the stainless…

One Year Ago Today! #IMetABoyAtTheRally

One Year Ago Today! #IMetABoyAtTheRally

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Last year I was affiliated with a nonprofit and our country was in the middle of an election so I limited my sharing of my work with Bernie Sanders, but since both of those things are no longer retraints I wanted to share this with you… #JustBecause! I met Bernie’s Flint campaign HQ manager a…