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Because you asked: XRF test results for a 2022 green glass San Pellegrino bottle

December 18, 2022December 11, 2023

December 18, 2022 — Sunday In response to the original Lead Safe Mama article (link) about XRF test results for a green glass San Pellegrino bottle (originally published in April of 2017), Lead Safe Mama readers have asked me to test a more recent bottle from this brand. I purchased one of these bottles…

Brown One Ounce Glass Bottle From “Immunattack” Supplement by Herb Pharm: Lead Free & Cadmium Free

February 16, 2019April 11, 2020

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Many colored glass bottles that I have tested have been positive for trace levels of Lead and Cadmium. As a result, my readers have started sending me their supplement bottles to test using XRF technology. This particular bottle (pictured here on this post) was negative for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic. For glass bottles that…

Tiny Brown Glass Sample Bottle of doTerra Balance Oil: 20 ppm Cadmium (considered safe by all standards.)

January 13, 2019April 11, 2020

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When tested with a high-precision XRF instrument, this tiny brown glass bottle (pictured here and below), was found to be negative for Lead but was positive for trace levels of Cadmium. The amount of Cadmium detected in the brown glass of this bottle is considered safe by all standards. To learn more about Cadmium toxicity, click…

Lead Free Baby Bottles, #Sigh

July 3, 2018July 5, 2018

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#LeadFreeBabyBottles | Baby Bottle | Baby Bottles | Bottle | Bottles

So this is super-sad, isn’t it? That we actively need to seek out lead-free baby bottles in 2018?! So sad. Well here’s a link to all of the posts I have written with lead free baby bottles (click here or on the image below.) There are other brands that are lead-free of course, but I…

Pura Kiki Insulated Baby Bottle: the most egregious example of a “green-branded” bottle with unsafe levels of Lead.

May 14, 2017June 11, 2019

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Please read this entire post. Maybe by the end of it you will be as outraged as I have been by the actions of this company. – Thank you. Original post title: Pura Kiki Follow Up #SurprisedNotSurprised. To see more posts about the issues with this product and this company, click here. Highlights of the…

San Pellegrino Water Bottle: 116 ppm Lead in the green glass, 90 is unsafe in items used by kids. Please click & read to learn more.

April 4, 2017December 11, 2023

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Originally published: April 4, 2017 Updated: January 15, 2023 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,…