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Foam cushion inserts from popular “non-toxic” Los Angeles-based sofa brand test positive for Lead & Arsenic. This product is marketed as “Lead-free.”

Foam cushion inserts from popular “non-toxic” Los Angeles-based sofa brand test positive for Lead & Arsenic. This product is marketed as “Lead-free.”

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Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…

Facebook Groups: Southern California Lead Safe Mamas… Join us if you live in or “near” Southern California!

Facebook Groups: Southern California Lead Safe Mamas… Join us if you live in or “near” Southern California!

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There are currently more than a dozen Lead Safe Mama Facebook groups organized by geographic area. Each time I get a request from families in a specific area to coordinate an outreach trip to that area, I start a Facebook group. “Why are you creating these groups?” These groups help me “collect” everyone who might…

Bauer Vintage Celadon Pottery, Los Angeles: 210,800 ppm Lead (21%!). Context: 90 ppm is unsafe for kids.

Bauer Vintage Celadon Pottery, Los Angeles: 210,800 ppm Lead (21%!). Context: 90 ppm is unsafe for kids.

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This is a set of Bauer Vintage Celadon Pottery, Made In Los Angeles and purchased at an antique store in Portland, Oregon in 2017. When tested with an XRF instrument each of the pieces tested positive for the elements at the levels shown below. Note: the lead levels below are VERY HIGH, and I would…