Antique Glitter | Antique Paper Dolls | Antique Stickers | Items with glitter | Paper Dolls | Vintage Glitter | Vintage Stickers | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Antique/vintage cut-out (lick-the-back) embossed stickers with glitter: 6,385 ppm Lead (90 ppm Lead is unsafe for kids)
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)…
#Leaded | #LeadedChina | #LeadedDishes | #LeadedHousehold | #LeadedKitchen | American Flag | Betsy Ross | Historical America Series | Homer Laughlin | Joseph Boggs Beale | Leaded China | Made In America | Made in U.S.A. | Made In USA | Museum of Lead | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Vintage “Historical America Betsy Ross Showing The First Flag” Dish by Homer Laughlin: 57,200 ppm Lead [90 is unsafe]
This plate was purchased at an antique store in Oregon in 2018. The text on the back is as follows: Historical America Betsy Ross Showing the First Flag…1777 Homer Laughlin China Co. Made in USA Picture Reproduced From Original Painting By Joseph Boggs Beale Copyright – Modern Enterprises, Philadelphia, Pa. Continue reading below the image….
#LeadedChina | #LeadedDishes | Fall Bounty Pattern | Leaded Ceramic | Leaded China | Leaded Glaze | Leaded Glazes | Lenox | Lenox China | Lenox Fall Bounty | Lenox Temper-ware | Made In America | Made in U.S.A. | Made In USA | Temper-Ware | Winter Greetings | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Vintage Lenox Temper-Ware Fall Bounty Plate: 173,200 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for children) + 1,775 ppm Arsenic
This vintage Temper-ware by Lenox (Made in the USA, Fall Bounty pattern) was a likely source of Lead exposure for a child. Mama sent me this plate to test after she first confirmed it was positive for Lead by testing it with a swab. While not all vintage dishes will test positive with a LeadCheck swab…
#BackToSchool | #SchoolSupplies | 2019 | Back To School | Maxwell House Coffee | School Supplies | Thermos | Thermos Brand | Vintage Thermos | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Vintage Maxwell House Thermos: 2,034 ppm Lead, 26 Cadmium, 249 Arsenic, 42 Antimony & that’s just in the CUP!
When tested with an XRF instrument this Thermos brand Maxwell House coffee Thermos (vintage, yard sale find!) had the following readings: Continue reading below each of the images to see the XRF reading for that specific component. Integrated red plastic cup on top (image above): Lead (Pb): 2,034 +/- 34 ppm Cadmium (Cd): 26 +/-…
#LeadFree | #LeadSafe | 2019 | Glass | Glass Bottle | Glass Bottles | Glass Jar | Glass Water Bottle | Glassware | Made In China | Miniso | Miniso Los Angeles | Miniso Store | Water | Water Bottle | Water Bottles | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
I’m sort of in love with this store! Miniso 2019 “Smile, Enjoy Your Life” Glass Water Bottle: Lead-Free (Cadmium Free, etc.)
When tested with an XRF instrument, this newly-purchased (2019) Miniso small glass water bottle had the following readings: Plain (undecorated) section of the glass of the bottle: Barium (Ba): 456 +/ 228 ppm Copper (Cu): 50 +/- 18 ppm Iron (Fe): 125 +/- 38 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 12 +/- 7 ppm Continue reading below the…
Do you have a painted bracelet like this at home? This was positive for 19,400 ppm Lead [90 is unsafe] + 489 Arsenic.
When tested with an XRF instrument the hand painted child’s bracelet pictured here had the following readings: Lead (Pb): 19,400 +/- 400 ppm Arsenic (As): 489 +/- 132 ppm Barium (Ba): 24,500 +/- 500 ppm Chromium (Cr): 3,332 +/- 246 ppm Tests are science-based and results are replicable. Testing was done with a Niton XL3T…
Baby Stormi | Handbag | Kardashian Family | Kylie | Kylie Jenner | Leaded Purses | Louis Vuitton | Louis Vuitton Handbag | Purse | Purses | Stormi | Zipper | Zippers
Authentic Louis Vuitton Bag, c. 2001: 811 ppm Lead. 90 is unsafe. Does your baby play with your purse?
Introduction: Tamara Rubin is an independent advocate for consumer goods safety, and 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 high-precision XRF testing (a scientific method used by the…
Authentic Louis Vuitton Bag, c. 2001: 223 ppm Lead. 90 ppm is unsafe. Does your child play with yours?
The owner of this purse told me she purchased it new in Paris (direct from the manufacturer) about 20 years ago, c. 2001. To see more authentic Louis Vuitton purses I have tested, click here. I have known for years that these Louis Vuitton purses often contain high levels of Lead (I mention this at a lot…
I’m sick (very unhealthy) as a result of the legal battle of the past 3 years & I am going to try to do something about it.
Hello friends! I’ve decided to write this post as a declaration, a “line in the sand” of sorts – hopefully a point of demarcation that will help me get back to where I once was in terms of my health. I’m sick. I am very unhealthy as a result of personal sacrifices because of the…
July 2019 Update: Opportunities to Invest in Lead Safe Mama’s Work
July 18, 2019 – Update Lead Safe Mama, LLC is GROWING… I’ve written this post because maybe you (my readers) know someone who might be interested in supporting this work in a big way – while also getting something in return. As my regular readers know, this is work that really no one else is doing…
Curio Box | Kashmir | Kashmir India | Made In India | Paper Mache | Trinket | Trinket Box | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Who has a trinket box like this at home? This is from Kashmir, India: 192,500 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe for kids.]
When tested with an XRF instrument, this little trinket box from Kashmir, India had the following readings*: Top Area, white base paint with colorful decorations (image above): Lead (Pb): 192,500 +/- 12,000 ppm Barium (Ba): 7,824 +/- 870 ppm Zinc (Zn): 3,117 +/- 265 ppm Vanadium (V): 5,081 +/- 494 ppm Titanium (Ti): 12,300 +/-…
#JEsp | Appliance | Appliances | Blade | Blades | Blender | Blender Blade | Braun | Food Chopper | Food Preparation | Food Processor
Braun MultiQuick Hand Blender / Food Processor: Lead Free in All Accessible Components (no Lead detected via XRF.)
For the record, and as an example of the complexity of some of the XRF testing I do, this Braun multi-function handheld blender/food processor was a very challenging, extremely time-consuming item to test — with more than 24 separate XRF-accessible elements [and an even more, inaccessible components]. It also features a variety of different substrates [testing jargon…
Change.org | Petition | Petitions | Tupperware | Tupperware with Arsenic | Tupperware with Cadmium | Tupperware with Lead
Please sign. This petition asks Tupperware to officially respond re: Lead & Arsenic (etc!) found in their vintage products.
Click the image here to sign the petition on Change.org. When you do sign, please leave a comment as well, this will help the petition to get more traction. You can also read the full petition text (here on my blog) by scrolling down. Thank you for reading, and (most important!) thank you for sharing…
2019 | Birth | Charlie | Charlie Parker Eliezer Rubin | Childbirth | Keystone Article | My Youngest Son
Trace Lead exposure can impact fertility, pregnancy, and birth outcomes: The story of how Lead impacted my son Charlie’s birth. I nearly died.
Original Title: Written on my youngest son’s 11th birthday (July 2019): Read the story of how Lead impacted his birth (during which I almost died). 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….
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It’s Amazon Prime Day… so….Here’s an affiliate link you can click to support my advocacy work with your shopping.
Ok I cave! [I was really trying not to participate in the shopping frenzy that is “Prime Day”!] Below is my Amazon affiliate link to get an Instant Pot super cheap on Prime Day! Just $55.99 – as of the time I posted it — and it is among the lowest-Lead pressure cooker-type appliances that…
#AskTamara | #DearTamara | Ask Tamara | Baby Bottles With Lead | Baby Food | Baby Food Jar | Baby Food Jars | Baby Food Storage | Cadmium | Cadmium Concerns | Cadmium Toxicity | Dear Tamara | Glass | Jervis & George | Lead Paint | Lead Painted Baby Bottle | Lead Painted Glass | Sippy Cup | Sippy Cups | Sippy Straw Cup | SippyCup | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
WHY IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL?! Jervis & George glass sippy cup jar: 6,422 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + 88 Cadmium
Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a multiple-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…
#LeadedDishes | #MayThe4thBeWithYou | 2019 | Ceramic Mug | Ceramic Mugs | Disney | Disney Mug | Dollar | Dollar Store | Dollar Tree | Dollar Tree Store | Leaded China | Lucas Film | LucasFilm | LucasFilm ltd | May The 4th | May The Fourth Be With You | Mug | Mugs | Star Wars | XRF Testing | XRFTesting | Zak | Zak Designs | zak! designs
Star Wars Storm Trooper ceramic mug (Dollar Store find): 605 ppm Lead (90 is considered unsafe for kids’ items)
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…
Costume | Costumes | Felt | Felt Hat | Felt with Mercury | Halloween | Halloween Costumes | Hat | Hats | Mercury | Mercury Contamination | Mercury Pollution | Vintage Hat | Vintage Ladies’ Hat | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Do you know where the “Mad Hatter” got his name? Here’s a clue – vintage felt hat: 3,844 ppm MERCURY! [100 is unsafe]
I have long known the vintage and antique felt hats were (historically) made with unsafe levels of Mercury (as part of the felting process for the wool as I understand it), but I had never personally tested a vintage felt hat and found it to be positive for high levels of Mercury — until now….
A #LeadSafeMama Financial Update: July 14, 2019 – Testing, Projects, Legal Battles
Sunday, July 14, 2019 Hello all! Seeing as how my readers have been critical players in supporting my work during a difficult 3+ years, it’s time for an update on the progress of various things – including a variety of exciting news to share! #1, my legal battle: Thank you so much to everyone who…
2019 | 2019 Stats | July | July 2019 | July Stats | Site Stats | Stats | Stats Graph | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
#SiteStats: July 2019 is on track to become #LeadSafeMama’s second best #BestMonthEver!
…. this is second only to #TupperwareGate2019 in March of this year with over 1,300,000 unique views in one month! Thanks everyone for sharing my posts! I really appreciate it. …& BTW this is incredibly odd, July is generally one of the SLOWEST months for my advocacy work! It just shows that people…
#Giveaway | #LeadFree | #LeadFreeToys | 2019 | 304 | 304 Stainless | 304 Stainless Steel | Baby | Baby Dishes | Baby Flatware | Baby Rattle | Baby Teether | Baby Toys | Discount Code | Flatware | Keys | Kleynimals | Stainless | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel Toys
Someone is about to win a set of Kleynimals toy keys for a little person in their life! And the winner is…
Lead Safe Mama just passed 24,250 “likes” on Facebook — and to celebrate reaching this milestone we are giving away one set of Kleynimals‘ toy keys to a lucky person chosen at random from everyone who “follows” and “likes” Lead Safe Mama on Facebook! And the winner is: Angela Knoebel! Keep inviting your friends to like…
Fun Facts: Yesterday July 2019 moved in to #LeadSafeMama’s 11th top month ever spot, and this morning it just popped up two notches into 9th place!
Click the image to see the graph full size! Thanks for being here everyone! We’re on a roll!!!! [Big time!] Thanks for sharing this information with people in your families and communities. Tamara Rubin #LeadSafeMama
Still in search of a Lead-free purple mug! Miniso 2019 Simple Ceramic Mug: 99 ppm Lead #LeadSafe! (Almost there!)
When tested with an XRF instrument, this newly-purchased (2019) Miniso simple ceramic mug (in “fashionable” purple) had the following readings: Purple exterior glaze: Lead (Pb): 99 +/- 22 ppm Barium (Ba): 1,056 +/ 92 ppm TIn (Sn): 903 +/- 49 ppm Zinc (Zn): 5,914 +/- 251 ppm Copper (Cu): 320 +/- 62 ppm Iron (Fe):…
2019 | Ceramic Tile | Floor Tile | Flooring | Flooring Sample | Leaded Tile | Mexican | Mexican Pottery | Mexican Tile | Mexico | Tile | XRF Testing | XRFTesting
Mexican tiles often have unsafe levels of Lead. Tile pictured: 25,800 ppm Lead. > 90 ppm is illegal in modern house paint.
When tested with an XRF instrument, the hand-painted Mexican tile pictured here had the following readings: Lead (Pb): 25,800 +/- 1,000 ppm Barium (Ba): 538 +/- 130 ppm This tile was non-detect (negative) for: Antimony (Sb), Chromium (Cr), Cadmium (Cd), Arsenic (As), Mercury (Hg) and Selenium (Se). XRF-detectable Lead content in tile is not regulated…