Last Updated: May 30, 2025

Background on Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s Community Collaborative Laboratory Testing Initiative

The Lead Safe Mama, LLC (LSM) team has been conducting independent, community-funded, scientific consumer goods testing since 2009. Before 2024, our work primarily focused on testing consumer goods (including dishes, toys, household items, furniture, jewelry, etc.) using XRF technology.

In March 2024, LSM began coordinating independent, third-party, community-collaborative laboratory testing of foods, supplements, cosmetics, and personal-care items. Since then, we have sent more than 400 community-nominated products to laboratories, testing each for Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, and Arsenic down to single-digit parts per billion (ppb) detection levels. You can find our published lab reports for every product we have tested to date through this initiative below (scroll down).

How are products chosen for testing? How is this testing paid for?

This laboratory testing initiative is driven by the interests and priorities of the greater Lead Safe Mama community (we had nearly 2.3 million unique individual readers here on this website in the 2024 calendar year alone and also have a strong social media presence on both Instagram and Facebook).

Lead Safe Mama community members nominate products for laboratory testing and then use crowdfunding (including through GoFundMe) to raise the funds needed to cover the costs related to the testing and reporting for each nominated product.
This is how the products pictured below were chosen for testing, and how that testing and reporting were paid for.
This unique model of community-directed (and community-funded) testing and reporting helps ensure this initiative is truly free of corporate influence and instead, strongly rooted in science (without bias).

Raw, Direct-to-Consumer Data that’s Never Behind a Paywall

Another unique aspect of Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s work: All of our findings (including the raw data/ original lab reports) are always shared publicly (here on the Lead Safe Mama website and our social media), free of charge, and not behind a paywall of any kind. While contributions supporting our work are always welcome, they are not required.

The intention behind the Lead Safe Mama, LLC laboratory testing initiative is twofold: 1) To identify lab-tested safer products, helping consumers make science-informed choices regarding the products they use with their families, and 2) To identify products with egregious levels of toxicants we can then (collectively) report to public agencies (including the FDA) in efforts to get those products recalled.

A foundation of LSM’s work is the understanding (and agreement with scientific and medical consensus) that there is no safe level of Lead exposure for humans and that we (as consumers) should demand companies be held accountable for manufacturing and selling Lead-contaminated products — especially products marketed and sold for use by children (or products marketed for general use that will likely be used or consumed by children).

Please check back here — on this landing page — periodically for the latest updates and newly published lab reports. If you prefer to get alerts (via email or social media) when we publish new articles, here are a few options:
- We first share our newly published articles (including those with lab reports) on our Patreon.
- We then share published articles with our email newsletter subscribers, which is free!
- Finally, we share published articles on our social media channels (including Facebook and Instagram).
- You can subscribe to our Patreon free of charge or with a small monthly gift supporting this work.
- Lead Safe Mama, LLC is not a 501(c)3 nonprofit, so contributions are not tax-deductible.

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Advertising and affiliate income help Lead Safe Mama, LLC cover the costs of the work we do here (independent consumer goods testing and childhood Lead poisoning prevention advocacy). We have removed ads from most of our more widely-read pages and articles (like this one!) to make them easier for you to read. In addition to supporting this work by starting any shopping you might be doing with a click on our affiliate links, if you would like to support the independent consumer goods testing and childhood Lead poisoning prevention advocacy work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC by making a contribution (which will also help us keep our more widely-read articles ad-free), click here. Thank you! You can also support our work with a small monthly gift on Patreon. All our newly published lab reports are first shared on Patreon before we share them on social media.

Each graphic below with a product image is a clickable button that — when clicked — will take you to an article with the full original lab report for the product pictured. There are currently 391 products listed below (with lab reports already published or pending/ to be published shortly). This page is a great bookmark as it is updated nearly every day with newly published reports. Please also check out the Food Testing Index images below to see all of our product categories on this page at a glance.

Other Important Links for Those new to our Website:

1. How to Nominate a Product for Testing
2. Our Budget for Each Lead Safe Mama, LLC Community Collaborative Laboratory Testing Initiative
3. Our Open Campaigns Raising Funds for Additional Testing & Reporting
4. The Lead Safe Mama, LLC About Page
5. Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s In the News Page — with recent press coverage of our work
6. The Lead Safe Mama Website Menu