Introduction: Tamara Rubin is a Federal award winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead poisoning prevention. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009, and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses XRF testing (a scientific…
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…
The silverware set pictured here was purchased at Target. Full XRF Test results are below. “Pretty” doesn’t have to mean “Toxic!” These are a terrific choice! This is the silverware set I bought my son for his college apartment. He LOVES them and his roomies love them too, apparently! (I recently asked him if he was…
When tested with an XRF instrument the Royal Doulton brand knife (purchased new c. 2009) pictured here had the following readings… Reading on blade Metal – 410/16/20 Stainless Steel: Chromium (Cr): 115,800 +/- 900 ppm Copper (Cu): 614 +/- 231 ppm Nickel (Ni): 1,203 +/- 391 ppm Iron (Fe): 873,900 +/- 2000 ppm Vanadium (V):…
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,…
These knives are VERY LOW Nickel! Note: I generally never have a concern about stainless steel items containing any lead (unless they are not a single component item.) See this post for more about that. Below are the XRF test results for the stainless steel knife from Ikea pictured in this post. What I like…
Originally published: July 8, 2018 Updated: December 26, 2021 Q: What is carbon steel? A: The following XRF readings are all of the metals detected when testing the Morakniv “Made In Sweden” knife (pictured here), which is marked “Carbon Steel”. While I have not tested a lot of carbon steel items, these readings are likely…
Stainless Flatware from “Wallace”: Lead Free Modern one-piece / single metal (seamless) flatware marked “stainless steel” and manufactured in recent years (regardless of country of origin) should all be lead free. As always, please feel free to ask questions. Here are some good choices to look at: Oneida IKEA Henckles Lenox Stainless Steel is primarily composed of chromium,…