Chips

Cape Cod Kettle Cooked Original Sea Salt Potato Chips Test Positive for Cadmium (and traces of Arsenic): November 2024 Laboratory Report

November 14, 2024December 16, 2024

Quick note from Tamara Rubin: All of the potato chips that Lead Safe Mama, LLC has sent to the lab for testing this year (2024) have tested positive for unsafe levels of Cadmium. Cadmium is a known carcinogen. We’ll be writing a summary discussing the concerns for Cadmium in Potato Chips (“America’s Number…

Ruffles Original Potato Chips Test Positive for Arsenic & Cadmium: 2024 Laboratory Report

November 5, 2024December 10, 2024

Quick note from Tamara Rubin: As previously published, we have not yet found a potato chip snack product that has tested negative (non-detect) for Cadmium (a known carcinogen). As you can see from the aggregate data graphic below, each of the potato chip products we have tested resulted positive for an UNSAFE level of…

Lay’s Classic Potato Chips Test Positive for Lead, Arsenic, & Cadmium: 2024 Laboratory Report

November 5, 2024December 10, 2024

Quick note from Tamara Rubin: As previously published, we have not yet found a potato chip snack product that has tested negative (non-detect) for Cadmium (a known carcinogen). As you can see from the aggregate data graphic below, each of the potato chip products we have tested have in fact tested positive for an…

Vandy Classic Potato Chips (by Ancient Crunch) Test Positive for Unsafe Levels of Lead & Cadmium: October 2024 Lab Report

October 24, 2024December 10, 2024

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,…

Siete Serrano Sea Salt Vinegar Kettle Cooked Potato Chips with Avocado Oil test positive for unsafe levels of Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium — September 2024 lab report

September 20, 2024December 7, 2024

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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,…

Boulder Canyon’s Avocado Oil Classic Sea Salt Potato Chips test positive for very high levels of Cadmium (a known carcinogen). Here’s the August 2024 lab report.

August 21, 2024November 14, 2024

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Quick summary: The chart above shows where the Boulder Canyon Avocado Oil Classic Sea Salt Potato Chips (Canyon Cut) fall related to three other snack chip products we have tested (two potato chip products and one cassava chip product), each of which tested positive for an unsafe level of Cadmium (unsafe for children, and…

The Good Crisp potato chips in Classic Original flavor test positive for unsafe levels of Lead and Cadmium. Read the July 2024 lab report here.

August 16, 2024November 14, 2024

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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,…