July Archives - Lead Safe Mama

AshaPops popped water lily seeds (in vegan cheese flavor) tested positive for unsafe levels of Lead and Arsenic. See the lab report here.

August 6, 2024August 17, 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,…

Nature’s Path Envirokidz Organic Chocolate Koala Crisp cereal tests positive for unsafe levels of Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic. See the lab report here.

July 31, 2024August 5, 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,…

Simple Mills Seed & Nut Flour Sweet Thins (Mint Chocolate) positive for 28 ppb Lead & 59 ppb Cadmium — that’s more than 5 times the proposed 5 ppb “Action Level” for Lead in food sold for kids

July 30, 2024August 11, 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,…

Today’s bit of “Lead Safe Mama Drama” — more lies and deflection from Redmond Real Salt, this time personally directed at Tamara

July 26, 2024November 24, 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…

General Mills Cheerios Tests Positive for Unsafe Levels of Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic With Independent 3rd-Party Laboratory Testing (July 2024)

July 19, 2024November 24, 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…

Independent Third-Party Laboratory Testing Confirms Redmond Real Salt Tests Positive for Unsafe Levels of Lead and Arsenic (July 2024)

July 18, 2024November 24, 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…

Preliminary Response (to a Lead Safe Mama community member) from King Arthur Baking Company — July 8, 2024

July 9, 2024September 2, 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,…

Seven Sundays’ Response to Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s Findings of Unsafe Levels of Lead & Cadmium in their Cereal

July 9, 2024November 24, 2024

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Here’s the text I shared with these two graphics (above and below) on Instagram (7/8/2024) Two images — including Seven Sundays’ response to a customer today — from July 8, 2024, Monday. – Their response is ridiculous of course, and irrelevant. – The proposed action level is 5 ppb Cadmium. Seven Sundays tested positive for 168…

Readers were having difficulty understanding how toxic the Seven Sundays Cereal is, so I created this graphic.

July 9, 2024November 24, 2024

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I also put together this table and graphic to help shed light on the concern: Some additional reading & links that may be of interest: A link with a spreadsheet showing all of our food testing — completed and in-progress (since March of 2024) The Lead Safe Mama affiliate link to purchase the test…

Seven Sundays Real Cocoa Grain Free Sunflower Cereal tests positive for an extremely high level of Cadmium (a known carcinogen). Read the laboratory report here.

July 7, 2024November 24, 2024

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Quote from the Seven Sundays website (see a direct screenshot from their website below): This quote was posted on their website BEFORE Lead Safe Mama conducted any testing. 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,…

King Arthur Organic Unbleached Bread Flour tests positive for unsafe levels of Cadmium (a known carcinogen). Read the laboratory report here.

July 7, 2024November 24, 2024

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King Arthur Flour’s response to a customer inquiring about heavy metal testing of their products (May 28, 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…

Jovial Organic Grain Free Cassava Pasta tests positive for unsafe levels of Lead. Read the laboratory report here.

July 5, 2024July 9, 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,…

Cascadian Farm Organic Gluten Free Fruitful O’s (General Mills) tests positive for Lead. See the laboratory report here.

July 4, 2024July 9, 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,…

Birch Benders Paleo Pancake & Waffle Mix is positive for unsafe levels of Lead and Cadmium. Read the laboratory report here.

July 4, 2024July 9, 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,…

Final Numbers for July 2023: Lead Safe Mama’s Best July Ever!!!!

August 2, 2023August 3, 2023

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August 2, 2023 — Wednesday July 2023 was the BEST JULY EVER for the reach and readership of Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s work! While we did not reach our sustainability readership goal of 600,000 unique page views for the month (the level of readership at which we project that the funds earned from our work…

Quick Note Re: Lead Safe Mama’s Best July Ever

July 28, 2023August 2, 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, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific…

Just popping in here today to say July 2023 is officially the BEST JULY EVER for reach and readership of the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC! Thank you!

July 26, 2023July 28, 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, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used by…

Final July 2022 Stats: “9th Best Month Ever” with over 101,000 unique visitors & over 300,000 unique page views! Thank you!

August 2, 2022September 13, 2022

Tuesday – August 02, 2022 Some highlights from July 2022 9th best month ever! “Best July Ever” too (the previous #BestJulyEver was in 2020 with 241,026 page views) 5th month of 2022 that has landed in the “Top Ten Months Of All Time” The 9th month (ever) with over 300,000 unique page views in one…

LeadSafeMama.com passed 14,500,000 unique all-time page views today! Thank you!

July 28, 2022August 2, 2022

Thursday – July 28, 2022 Thank you to each and every one of you who helped make achieving this milestone happen! Check out the graphs and charts below for all the details. I’m not going to take a lot of time writing here right now because I have some very exciting news to share and…

July of 2022 is officially the #BestJulyEver here at LeadSafeMama.com (& there are still six days left in the month!)

July 26, 2022July 31, 2022

July 26, 2022 – Tuesday (wee hours of the morning) Our previous #BestJulyEver was July of 2020 with 241,026 views for the month by the end of the day July 31, 2020. July 2022 passed that number yesterday (7/25) and is the #BestJulyEver now, and there are still 6 days left in the month… so…

Lead Safe Mama dot com passed 3,500,000 unique page views for the year on Tuesday! (7/19/22)

July 21, 2022July 26, 2022

July 21, 2022 – Thursday Hi all — exciting news here (I just haven’t had a moment to post this update)… On Tuesday 7/19 we passed 3,500,000 unique page views for the year, so far! Other July 2022 highlights: It looks like this is going to be the #BestJulyEver here at LeadSafeMama.com, with over 300,000…

July 2020 just made it to 5th place on the list of #BestMonthsEver on LeadSafeMama.com! Thanks everyone.

July 30, 2020August 1, 2020

Following up on my posts over the past couple of days… Click here to see the related posts! ~click here to chip in in support of the work of Lead Safe Mama~

For those who only read headlines: yesterday the Lead Safe Mama site passed 7,000,000 unique all-time views!

July 29, 2020May 16, 2023

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 9:33 a.m. For 2:30 p.m update, scroll down! Thank you all for supporting the work shared here on the Lead Safe Mama website – and specifically, thank you for reading and sharing my posts with your friends and communities. Without your engagement and participation, none of what we are…

July 2020 just jumped onto the Lead Safe Mama top ten #BestMonthsEver list, with 196,754 views so far this month!

July 28, 2020July 29, 2020

Posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 7:00 p.m. Things are stating to look like they may be “heading back towards normal” for LeadSafeMama.com! Today, July 2020 jumped in to the #TopTen #BestMonthsEver: With over 196,000 views as of this afternoon, July 2020 is now in 9th place among the #BestMonthsEver here on the blog! Thank you…