Organic Food

Costco Kirkland Organic Hemp Hearts (Product of Canada): 2024 Lab Report – Testing For Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic

December 15, 2024December 20, 2024

Quick note from Tamara Rubin: We were so excited to learn that this product tested non-detect for Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic – and especially excited given the low thresholds of detection for the lab report for this particular product was so very low. Please scroll down to the bottom of this article to…

Costco Kirkland Organic Creamy Peanut Butter (packaged in plastic jars) tests positive for Cadmium, Lead, & Arsenic: November 2024 Laboratory Report

November 2, 2024December 20, 2024

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Quick note from Tamara Rubin: I have been informing readers about the concern for toxicants in this particular product for more than five years now, prompted initially when I was house-sitting for my friend Carissa and saw this product on the counter in her kitchen and decided to test the jar for toxicants using…

Lundberg Family Farms Organic California White Basmati Rice Tests Positive for Arsenic & Cadmium: October 2024 Laboratory Report

October 29, 2024December 20, 2024

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Quick note from Tamara Rubin: Given the Arsenic and Cadmium levels found in this product (through community-funded, third-party, independent laboratory testing), the product should not be considered safe for children to eat. While the levels found for Arsenic in this case is the “total Arsenic” (meaning we do not know what percentage is organic Arsenic…

Like all other USA-made wheat flours we have tested, Costco’s Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour tested positive for unsafe levels of Cadmium. Read the August 2024 laboratory report.

September 13, 2024December 20, 2024

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Summary: This All-Purpose, Organic flour from Costco tested positive for 12 parts per billion (ppb) Cadmium. A level of 12 ppb is 240% of the “Action Level” for Cadmium proposed within the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021 (2.4 times the level considered dangerous for consumption by children). Scroll down to read more about…

Jovial Organic Brown Rice Pasta (Italy) tests positive for unsafe levels of Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic — August 2024 lab report

August 21, 2024December 20, 2024

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Quick summary: The chart above shows where the Jovial Organic Brown Rice pasta falls in relation to six other products we have tested that also tested positive for Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic. Of the products on the above chart, the Amara Smoothie Melts have the highest Lead level (many times the Lead level of…

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,…

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…

June 2024 Laboratory Test Results for Jovial 100% Organic Einkorn All Purpose Flour

June 26, 2024December 20, 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,…