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#TeamWork! Mighty Nest is offering full refunds if you bought (Lead-containing) Paulie Jars from them!
November 2, 2020 - Monday
This is the fourth post in a series of posts about this situation (The discovery of Lead in Paulie Jars sold by Mighty Nest as "Lead Free")
So far there are three additional posts up related to this product, and I will update this list as additional posts are ...
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Good news for carnival glass fans! Vintage orange carnival glass sauce boat: non-detect for Lead!
Some good news for carnival glass fans!
When tested with an XRF instrument the vintage orange carnival glass (pressed glass) sauce boat pictured here had the following readings:
Iron (Fe): 2,726 +/- 237 ppm
No other metals detected on the food surface!
Bottom of glass tested negative for ...
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Anchor Hocking royal ruby red pressed bubble glass tea cup: Lead-free, 24 ppm Cadmium (safe by all standards.)
Vintage Red Glass Anchor Hocking Cup
When tested with an XRF instrument the vintage red Anchor Hocking punch glass pictured here had the following readings.
Cadmium (Cd): 24 +/- 5 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 37 +/- 9 ppm
Tin (Sn): 873 +/- 28 ppm
Copper (Cu): 574 +/- 50 ppm
Indium (In): 36 ...
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Vintage glass vase: 4,420 ppm Cadmium (Cd causes cancer, but I am not too concerned to find it in a vase.)
Vintage Red Blown Glass Vase
When tested with an XRF instrument the vintage red glass vase pictured here had the following readings.
Cadmium (Cd): 4,420 +/- 197 ppm
Barium (Ba): 452 +/- 59 ppm
Silver (Ag): 40 +/- 9 ppm
Palladium (Pd): 14 +/- 7 ppm
Platinum (Pt): 777 +/- 212 ppm ...
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Vintage International China Statastone Verte Pattern Large Dish: 8,186 ppm Lead on the food surface.
This is a larger dish that matches the smaller dish posted on the blog recently.
XRF reading on food surface of dish (white glaze area):
60-second reading
Lead (Pb): 171 +/- 25 ppm
Barium (Ba): 331 +/- 57
Zirconium (Zr): 27,100 +/- 800 ppm
Platinum (Pt): 801 +/- 155 ppm
Zinc (Zn): ...
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Today I heard back from Paulie Jar regarding Lead found in their “non-toxic” insulated stainless containers.
November 1, 2020 - Sunday
Note: This post has the same introduction as the post with the response from Mighty Nest. The most interesting part of this post (IMHO) is my additional responses to Paulie Jar at the bottom of the post. Thanks for reading!
Last night (at ...
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Today I heard back from the CEO of Mighty Nest regarding Lead found in stainless containers purchased on their site.
November 1, 2020 - Sunday
Last night (at 9:30 p.m. PST) I published a post sharing about the findings of Lead in Paulie Jar stainless steel insulated beverage / food containers. Here is the link to the original post. The reason this finding is concerning is two-fold.
Reason #1) This ...
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October 2020 wrapped up in 9th place in the #TopTen months of all time on LeadSafeMama.com! Thank you!
Thanks again everyone! I hope you had a great Halloween.
Here's to an exciting November! ...
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Paulie Jar insulated stainless steel containers (sold by Mighty Nest & clearly marketed for use by kids), positive for Lead.
October 31, 2020 - Saturday
Halloween!
Tonight (at 10:49 East Coast Time) a reader contacted me with the following message (continue reading below the image):My reader and I had a bit of a follow-up conversation via Facebook messenger – as I do with so many of my readers! I was not at all ...
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October 2020 just made it in to the “Top Ten” months of all time on LeadSafeMama.com! Thank you!
#TopTen Months of All Time!
Reaching this milestone (having October 2020 join the top ten months of all time here on the blog) has made it so SIX of the #TopTen months of all time on the Lead Safe Mama blog have been in 2020! The other four #TopTen months were in 2019! This really makes 2020 a ...
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My friend said she would eat a bug before voting for Biden. I said “Just don’t eat these! They’re really high Lead!”
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). ...
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#LeadSafeMamaGiveaway! You could win this antique Fenton vase! [Ends 10/31 midnight, PST]
A #LEADSAFEMAMA GIVEAWAY!
YOU COULD WIN THIS EXACT GLASS ANTIQUE VASE
(low-Lead, white Fenton glass - test results linked here!)
#Giveaway Details
GIVEAWAY ENDS October 31, 2020 at midnight PST.
A winner will be chosen from all eligible participants on November 1st by 5 p.m. ...
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Harvest Hill Press mug: 10,300 ppm Lead on the purple flowers. 404 ppm Cadmium in the birdhouse.
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). ...
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