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Baby Ddrops Organic Liquid Vitamin D3 Supplement: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

Baby Ddrops Organic Liquid Vitamin D3 Supplement: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: This is the second children’s supplement that we have sent to the lab for testing that has come back non-detect for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, & Arsenic! Scroll to the bottom of this article to see the full lab report for this product (including the testing methodology and limits of…

Jovial Organic Chickpeas, Product of Italy: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

Jovial Organic Chickpeas, Product of Italy: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: I was very happy to learn that this product tested non-detect for toxicants! My youngest son Charlie loves these rinsed and then soaked in a little red wine vinegar! He will eat them by the jar-ful. You can see the full lab report for this product if you scroll…

Amafil Polvilho Doce Sweet Manioc Starch Yuca Flour – Cassava Product of Brazil: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

Amafil Polvilho Doce Sweet Manioc Starch Yuca Flour – Cassava Product of Brazil: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: The lab report for this product was quite interesting to see. This product has the lowest level of Lead of all of the cassava flour products we have tested (excluding arrowroot and tapioca designated products which are apparently processed differently). So —consistent with our other findings of non-USA produced…

WestSoy West Life Organic Unsweetened Soymilk: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

WestSoy West Life Organic Unsweetened Soymilk: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: As this is a product consumed by my family on a regular basis (and has been for years, since it is one of the only non-dairy milk products one of my disabled children will use), we were so excited to learn that this product tested non-detect for Lead, Mercury,…

Costco Kirkland Organic Hemp Hearts (Product of Canada): 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

Costco Kirkland Organic Hemp Hearts (Product of Canada): 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: We were so excited to learn that this product tested non-detect for Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic – and especially excited given the low thresholds of detection for the lab report for this particular product was so very low. Please scroll down to the bottom of this article to…

Three Wishes Marshmallow Gluten Free Cereal: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

Three Wishes Marshmallow Gluten Free Cereal: 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: We anticipated that this cereal would test positive for toxicants. Unfortunately the lab report for this particular product did not have a sufficiently low threshold of detection for Lead and Mercury, so it is important to note that we do not know (with this lab report, which can be…

Peanut Butter Perfect Bar: November 2024 Lab Report

Peanut Butter Perfect Bar: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: This is the second Perfect Bar product we have tested to date. You can see the lab report for the first product that we tested from this brand by clicking this link. Given the fact that the first of these that we tested was also positive for both Cadmium…

Food For Life Flourless Organic Sprouted Grain Bread Ezekiel 4:9 – Orange Package: November 2024 Lab Report

Food For Life Flourless Organic Sprouted Grain Bread Ezekiel 4:9 – Orange Package: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: This is the first packaged bread product we have tested and reported on (we do have others in the queue – so stand by for the reports on those as well!) As anticipated (given so many grain products / flours we have tested have tested positive for Cadmium), this…

Renzo’s Picky Eater Melty Tab Vitamins in Lil’ Green Apple Flavor: November 2024 Lab Report

Renzo’s Picky Eater Melty Tab Vitamins in Lil’ Green Apple Flavor: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: This is yet another children’s vitamin that has tested positive for Lead. All federal agencies agree that there is no safe level of Lead exposure for children, we have (however) found one children’s vitamin that tested “non-detect” for Lead, so we do have evidence that it is possible to…

HiPP Bio Combiotik Infant Formula Powder – Stage 1 (imported): November 2024 Lab Report

HiPP Bio Combiotik Infant Formula Powder – Stage 1 (imported): November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: MORE GOOD NEWS! Yet Another Safer Infant Formula! (Scroll down to see lab report for this product).  Please check out our open/ not-yet-funded campaigns on GoFundMe if you would like to support some of our additional independent, crowd-funded, third-party laboratory testing. Thank you! For those new to the Lead…

Bobbie Whole Milk (Grass-Fed) Infant Formula Milk-Based Powder with Iron: November 2024 Lab Report

Bobbie Whole Milk (Grass-Fed) Infant Formula Milk-Based Powder with Iron: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: MORE GOOD NEWS! Another Safer Infant Formula! (Scroll down to see lab report for this product). Here’s the Amazon link for this product too: https://amzn.to/3ZlAaeJ –  To see more products that we have tested from this brand, click here. Note: funding to test this product was fully covered by…

Once Upon A Farm Organic Dairy-Free Smoothie in Strawberry Banana Swirl Flavor (Pouch): November 2024 Lab Report

Once Upon A Farm Organic Dairy-Free Smoothie in Strawberry Banana Swirl Flavor (Pouch): November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: GOOD NEWS! (Scroll down to see lab report for this product). Here’s the Amazon link for this product too! https://amzn.to/3CPMbAw – to see more products that we have tested from this brand, click here. Please check out our open/ not-yet-funded campaigns on GoFundMe if you would like to support…

Lead Safe Mama’s “Safer Swaps” for Snacks! #SwapDrama2024

Lead Safe Mama’s “Safer Swaps” for Snacks! #SwapDrama2024

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     11/26/2024 – Tuesday Quick note from Tamara Rubin: I don’t know if you saw the “swap drama” on social media over the weekend. It was a bit annoying. Several “influencers” in the “food space” recommended a list of toxic products as “safer choices” — nearly EVERY recommendation on their lists was for a…

Pillsbury Best All Purpose Flour (Bleached, Enriched – Not Organic) tested positive for an unsafe level of Cadmium: November 2024 Lab Report

Pillsbury Best All Purpose Flour (Bleached, Enriched – Not Organic) tested positive for an unsafe level of Cadmium: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: As anticipated, Pillsbury All Purpose Flour tested positive for an unsafe level of Cadmium (“unsafe” when considered as a product that may be consumed by young children). For more information about the standards we are using as a metric to determine safety, continue reading below. To quote Star Wars…

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour tested positive for unsafe levels of Arsenic & Cadmium: November 2024 Lab Report

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour tested positive for unsafe levels of Arsenic & Cadmium: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: As anticipated, Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour tested positive for unsafe levels of Arsenic and Cadmium (“unsafe” when considered as a product that may be consumed by young children). For more information about the standards we are using as a metric to determine safety,…

Little Spoon Purple Carrot BabyBlend tests positive for Cadmium & for traces of Arsenic: November 2024 Lab Report

Little Spoon Purple Carrot BabyBlend tests positive for Cadmium & for traces of Arsenic: November 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: This is the seventh Little Spoon brand baby food product that we are reporting on. To see the other Little Spoon products we have tested — along with the lab reports for those products — click here (the full original lab report is always at the bottom of every…

Little Spoon Organic Kale Apple Curls with Ancient Grains Meltable Baby Puffs Test Positive for unsafe levels of Lead & Cadmium: 2024 Lab Report

Little Spoon Organic Kale Apple Curls with Ancient Grains Meltable Baby Puffs Test Positive for unsafe levels of Lead & Cadmium: 2024 Lab Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: This is the sixth Little Spoon brand baby food product that we are reporting on. To see the other Little Spoon products and their lab reports, click here. Unfortunately this product tested positive for unsafe levels of Lead and Cadmium (with the context we note for all of the…

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Kale, Carrot + Pear Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Kale, Carrot + Pear Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Rather Long Quick note from Tamara Rubin: The text in the next section below is the text we shared with our FIRST Little Spoon product article published yesterday. To simplify things, we are duplicating it (unedited) here as all of the information applies to this product as well. This article is our FIFTH report…

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Butternut Squash + Blueberry Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Butternut Squash + Blueberry Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Rather Long Quick note from Tamara Rubin: The text in the next section below is the text we shared with our FIRST Little Spoon product article published yesterday. To simplify things, we are duplicating it (unedited) here as all of the information applies to this product as well. This article is our FOURTH report…

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Sweet Potato Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Sweet Potato Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Rather Long Quick note from Tamara Rubin: The text in the next section below is the text we shared with our FIRST Little Spoon product article published yesterday. To simplify things, we are duplicating it (unedited) here as all of the information applies to this product as well. This article is our THIRD report…

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Sweet Potato + Carrot Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Sweet Potato + Carrot Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Rather Long Quick note from Tamara Rubin: The text in the next section below is the text we shared with our FIRST Little Spoon product article published yesterday. To simplify things, we are duplicating it (unedited) here as all of the information applies to this product as well. This article is our SECOND report…

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Banana Pitaya Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

Little Spoon BabyBlend in Banana Pitaya Flavor: November 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: Exciting news everyone! This Little Spoon BabyBlend in Banana Pitaya flavor (pitaya is also known as dragon fruit) tested “non-detect” for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic with a low threshold of detection of 5 parts per billion (ppb) for each of the four metals (see lab report below)! To…

Kendamil Goat Toddler Milk Formula (not Organic) Tests Positive for Trace Arsenic (Level Considered Safe by all Standards): November 2024 Laboratory Report

Kendamil Goat Toddler Milk Formula (not Organic) Tests Positive for Trace Arsenic (Level Considered Safe by all Standards): November 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: While this Kendamil brand formula (the “Goat Toddler Milk” version from this brand) tested positive for traces of Arsenic, each of the other three versions we have tested (both goat milk and cow milk-based powders, organic and not organic) from this brand have tested “non-detect” for toxicants (with a…

November 2024 Laboratory Report for Kendamil Goat Infant Formula (Not Organic)

November 2024 Laboratory Report for Kendamil Goat Infant Formula (Not Organic)

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: More good news (again)! Yet another “Infant Formula” product tested “non-detect” for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic! Scroll down to see the full lab report for the product pictured. We have added this product to our list of cleaner foods below! You may be able to buy this product…