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 used…
Continue reading below the images of additional cups/mugs/glassware we have tested. Each image below is a direct link to a separate post about that item containing its XRF test results. This post (about the Garfield mug) is a good overview to help provide context for all of these additional examples. The annoying ads you see on…
Originally Posted: December 2019 Updated: Monday – March 13, 2023 Please click any one of the image blocks below for more information on that subject. This “Start Here” post is a work in progress, so please let me know if you don’t find what you are looking for. Here are the topics posted so far (each…
[Originally posted in 2019 — updated for 2020] Hello! Happy Holidays! Let me start by saying a few things… #1) I don’t happen to celebrate Christmas (we’re Jewish – although December 25th is my late mother’s birthday(!), so we do take the day to remember her and spend it with family!) #2) I don’t buy…
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,…
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 used…
Urban Infant (UI) Chunky Sidewalk Chalk This chalk was sent to me by a reader, but without any accompanying note, so I want to thank you for sending it in — whoever you are! 🙂 While the product is “Made in China”, it appears this might a Canadian brand of sidewalk chalk, as I could not…
My Facebook page is almost to 30,000 likes! Please “Like” the page and invite your friends to like it too! Thank you! Here’s the link: http://www.Facebook.com/LeadSafeMama Tamara Rubin #LeadSafeMama
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ikea Bintje Plant Pot, 60 second test: Chromium (Cr): 2,043 +/- 194 ppm Zinc (Zn): 824,700 +/- 8,800 ppm Iron (Fe): 165,900 +/- 2,700 ppm Cobalt (Co): 5,944 +/- 695 ppm This piece is discussed in this video – link here. I will update this post shortly, but just wanted to start by making sure…
Are yerba mate bombillas (straws) toxic? Published: February 29, 2020 Photographic contributions by Avi Benjamin Rubin 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)….
When tested with an XRF instrument the white glazed Ikea mug pictured here had the following two sets of readings: 1.) Ikea mug exterior glaze: 60 second test Zinc (Zn): 28,500 +/- 900 ppm Copper (Cu): 335 +/- 62 ppm Iron (Fe): 650 +/- 168 ppm Vanadium (V): 82 +/- 29 ppm Titanium (Ti): 204 +/- 46 ppm Zirconium (Zr): 15,600 +/- 500 ppm Continue reading below…
Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is an independent advocate for consumer goods safety. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009 and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. Tamara uses XRF testing (a scientific…
So… where to start….? I was 24 years old. The year was 1994; I think it must have been October or November. …I had gotten married (to my first husband, who I had been living with for four years) on May 8, 1994. I lost the baby – we had a miscarriage of our daughter…
Posted: January 10, 2019 Hello friends! Because my readers are responsible for how much I earn (both through affiliate purchases and through the simple act of reading my blog and sharing my posts) I periodically share updates with the income from my blog – so you can have a tangible way to know how your…
Friday – January 10, 2020 Hello friends! The stats milestones on this blog have been happening so fast and furious I haven’t had time to report them in real time as they occur! Here’s a quick rundown of some recent milestones: The month of December 2019 concluded still in the place of “2nd best month…
Published: January 9, 2020 Updated: January 13, 2020 Heya San Francisco! My girlfriend in San Francisco just called me with this question, and I get this exact question often enough that I wanted to write this post — so I don’t have to dig for the city’s resource information (which is down towards the bottom…
When tested with an XRF instrument, the (Harbor Freight) Pittsburgh brand sledgehammer pictured here had the following readings: Black painted metal of hammer: Barium (Ba): 39,200 +/- 3,900 ppm Bromine (Br): 242 +/- 36 ppm Tin (Sn): 169 +/- 65 ppm Zinc (Zn): 610 +/- 141 ppm Copper (Cu): 603 +/- 210 ppm Iron (Fe): 218,900 +/-…
To see more End-Of-Year stats for LeadSafeMama.com for 2019, click here. It’s really important to set goals — sometimes focusing on reaching my goals is all I have to keep me going! For as long as I can remember (definitely since I finished college, in December of 1990, and possibly for years before then too)…
To see more End-Of-Year stats for LeadSafeMama.com for 2019, click here. If you read just one post on my blog in the 2019 calendar year, your time on the site contributed to the 3,826,782 total unique page views — by 1,948,249 visitors, in more than 200 countries — [per Jetpack Site Stats (scroll down for the screenshot],…
To see more End-Of-Year stats for LeadSafeMama.com for 2019, click here. If you read my blog in the 2019 calendar year, you were [per Google Analytics] one of 1,948,249 unique visitors to the blog, visiting LeadSafeMama.com / TamaraRubin.com – via computer, tablet, or phone – from one of more than 200 countries! Thank you for…