60-second test – food surface Lead (Pb): 36 +/- 10 ppm Cadmium (Cd): 9 +/- 4 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 116 +/- 14 ppm Zinc (Zn): 6,619 +/- 179 ppm Iron (Fe): 1,418 +/- 149 ppm Titanium (Ti): 180 +/- 75 ppm This dish had no maker’s mark or other detail beyond what can be seen…
60-second test – food surface Barium (Ba): 913 +/- 38 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 73 +/- 11 ppm Zinc (Zn): 2,553 +/- 93 ppm Iron (Fe): 660 +/- 127 ppm Vanadium (V): 4,079 +/- 317 ppm Titanium (Ti): 8,493 +/- 548 ppm This dish had no maker’s mark or other detail beyond what can be seen…
60-second test – food surface Lead (Pb): 61 +/- 13 ppm Barium (Ba): 116 +/- 29 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 106 +/- 17 ppm Platinum (Pt): 221 +/- 79 ppm Zinc (Zn): 21,000 +/- 500 ppm Iron (Fe): 830 +/- 126 ppm Vanadium (V): 262 +/- 96 ppm Titanium (Ti): 441 +/- 139 ppm This dish…
60-second test – food surface – white area Barium (Ba): 363 +/- 34 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 66 +/- 13 ppm Zinc (Zn): 5,581 +/- 182 ppm Copper (Cu): 81 +/- 35 ppm Iron (Fe): 1,870 +/- 194 ppm Vanadium (V): 1,946 +/- 223 ppm Titanium (Ti): 3,118 +/- 335 ppm Painted areas (including golden trim…
1983 Made in England Royal Worcester Fine Bone China “Royal Garden Elgar” 60-second test – food surface – white area Lead (Pb): 59,200 +/- 1,900 ppm Barium (Ba): 125 +/- 61 ppm Zinc (Zn): 209 +/- 36 ppm Iron (Fe): 971 +/- 177 ppm Painted areas (including golden trim and pink and white roses) tested…
10 Minutes With Tamara, a video series Early in the CoViD-19 pandemic (April 2020) I conceived of the idea for this video series, a collection of interviews with friends from around the globe — friends whose lives have been directly (or tangentially) impacted by childhood Lead exposure. I was inspired by the ease and simplicity of…
Lead paint on modern reusable milk bottles is a common problem. I have several other posts about this subject and I encourage you to read those (as they each have more details on the subject) for some background on the issue start by clicking on this link for additional background information.Not only did the paint on this…
Introduction to Tamara Rubin (for those new to this website!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S….
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…
Originally Posted on Facebook – November 30, 2019 Updates in Blue LISTEN. I am in a bad mood today. You NEED to get how serious Lead is and how important prenatal and preconception testing is. Today my 11 year old (poisoned in utero) BUSTED OUR FRONT DOOR! And it is COLD outside and now there…
In this new ten minute video I show you how you can test your vinyl blinds for Lead yourself and what you need to do to clean up the mess (and get rid of the hazard) if you find Lead in your vinyl blinds! Please let me know if you have any questions. Here’s my…
The roof is done! Now we just need to deal with the gutted kitchen! Scroll down… three pictures + a video of our kitchen today! Picture my husband took today: Monday – December 28, 2020 This is what the kitchen looked like (pretty much!) before the leak in the roof! This is what the kitchen looks…
December 29, 2020 Update – Tuesday
Introduction to Tamara Rubin (for those new to this website!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S….
Lead Safe Mama 2020 Top 10… – as of 12/26/2020 – 6 p.m. – 641,536 views – Vintage Corelle 71,636 views – Vintage Tupperware (yellow measuring cups) 60,904 views – Vintage Tupperware (yellow child’s cup) 46,381 views – Which dishes are Lead-free? 42,737 views – Which dishes do you use in your home? 40,285 views –…
The post I shared on Instagram today… ❣️This photo is from when I was the opening speaker for a presentation with Erin Brockovich. I brought a prop with me — a yellow vintage Pyrex mixing bowl — to show Erin how I test consumer goods for Lead using XRF technology (and also to demonstrate to the…
Introduction to Tamara Rubin (for those new to this website!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S….
Introduction to Tamara (for those new to the site!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S. government…
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…
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…
Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
nContinue reading below the image. Published: December 14, 2020 Fagus Crane for Basic Wooden Truck When members of a Facebook group for wooden toys tested this item (earlier this year) using different methodologies (XRF testing and reactive agent testing using a home kit), they had mixed (and quite confusing) results. The preliminary (short / quick)…
Please read the full post (below the linked report from the manufacturer.) December 11, 2020 – Friday In response to the original article I wrote – with the testing results for the XRF testing (total metals content testing) we did on the Always Pan (link here), readers of the Lead Safe Mama, LLC website contacted…
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