2021

September 1, 2022 – Thursday Shared on Facebook and Instagram today.. Hello friends! Well… yesterday did not go as planned! [Understatement of the year!] Here’s what I just shared on Facebook – and I thought I would share it here too… in case anyone knows someone who knows someone who can help out! Thanks in advance!:…

August 11, 2022 – Thursday XRF test results for the modern pyrex dish pictured. Reading #1) on the blue polka dots 60-second reading Lead (Pb): non-detect Cadmium (Cd): non-detect Tin (Sn): 16 +/- 7 ppm Mercury (Hg): non-detect Selenium (Se): non-detect Barium (Ba): non-detect Chromium (Cr): non-detetect Antimony (Sb): non-detect Indium (In): 9 +/- 6…

Thanks to “Facebook Memories” I got a reminder about this post from 11 years ago today. June 22, 2022 – Wednesday 11 years ago this week (11 years ago today) I won my first award from the Federal Government for my childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advocacy work (my first award ever for this work). No…

Lead Safe Mama, LLC focuses on science-based, independent (without government or corporate influence) environmental advocacy with an emphasis on healthy housing, childhood Lead-poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety. Learn more at LeadSafeMama.com – Lead Safe Mama, LLC is not a nonprofit organization (instead we are a woman-owned small business with a unique community-collaborative business model),…

XRF test results for the dish pictured. The food surface of this dish tested safe by all standards. The back mark is painted with high-Lead black paint (1,521 ppm Lead). Reading #1) Teal blue on the food surface of the dish 60-second test Lead (Pb): 45 +/- 11 ppm Cadmium (Cd): 12 +/- 5 ppm…

XRF test results for the dish pictured. Reading #1) In the center of the food surface on the blue bell flower design 60-second reading Lead (Pb): 14,300 +/- 300 ppm Cadmium (Cd): 14 +/- 5 ppm Mercury (Hg): non-detect Bromine (Br): non-detect Chromium (Cr): 2,434 +/- 314 ppm Manganese (Mn): 6,416 +/- 337 ppm Iron…

  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…

XRF test results for the replica musket ball pictured: 60-second test Lead (Pb): non-detect Cadmium (Cd): non-detect Mercury (Hg): non-detect Bromine (Br): non-detect Chromium (Cr): non-detect Copper (Cu): 739 +/- 354 ppm Tin (Sn): 920,900 +/- 11,000 ppm Antimony (Sb): 78,300 +/- 1,500 ppm No other metals detected in consumer goods mode. For those new…

Continue reading below the image! Sunday – April 2, 2022 Which of these items tested positive for unsafe levels of heavy metals? Which three are safe? Why do you think that? [What’s the reasoning behind your guesses?] Find out the answers on Instagram today @LeadSafeMama. More info in the links with this image too! –…

XRF test results for the item pictured. More information to be posted shortly. Brown dish food surface  60-second reading Lead (Pb): 82 +/- 5 ppm Cadmium (Cd): non-detect Mercury (Hg): non-detect Bromine (Br): non-detect Arsenic (As): non-detect Chromium (Cr): 218 +/- 97 ppm Iron (Fe): 35,900 +/- 400 ppm Copper (Cu): 62 +/- 11  ppm…