When tested with a high-precision XRF Instrument, the Ikea Marius stool (black plastic seat with black enameled metal legs) pictured here had the following readings.
Plastic top of stool - 60 seconds:
Lead (Pb): 136 +/- 13 ppm
Antimony (Sb): 64 +/- 21 ppm
Barium (Ba): 2,619 +/- 123 ppm ...
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Yellow powder coated metal Naxos outdoor dining chair from Cost Plus World Market: Lead-free, Cadmium-free, Arsenic-free.
When tested with an XRF Instrument, the yellow powder coated Naxos outdoor dining chair (from Cost Plus World Market - pictured here) had the following readings:
Barium (Ba): 11,100 +/- 300 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 2,893 +/- 421 ppm
Tin (Sn): 128 +/- 58 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 537 +/- 153 ppm ...
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Wooden Hebrew building block for children (c. 2010): Lead-free, Arsenic-free, Mercury-free. Thank G-d!
Here's a link to a product like this block on Amazon. [The designs and lettering look the same but the color scheme is different, however I am not 100% sure the blocks in the link are the same manufacturer as the block tested]: https://amzn.to/2OQsLPJ
Please note, different batches of ...
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Smoke colored glass and stone mosaic tiles: 53 ppm Lead + 125 ppm Cadmium.
XRF test reading for the tile pictured here:
#1.) Dark smoke colored tiles - images above
Tin (Sn): 61 +/- 17 ppm
Iron (Fe): 340 +/- 201 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 102 +/- 49 ppm
no other metals detected
#2.) Medium smoke glass colored tiles
Tin (Sn): 72 +/- 19 ppm
Iron (Fe): ...
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Ledljus Ikea string lights (indoor & outdoor use): 23,800 ppm Antimony plus trace Lead & Arsenic
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 ...
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A reader posted this comment on my earlier post about systemic racism: Knowledge is Neither Neutral Nor Apolitical (April 1971). It’s brilliant.
I wanted to share the PDF from a document that a reader of my blog (who I have known for years via this advocacy community) posted as a comment on my earlier post about systemic racism in the role of perpetuating Lead poisoning.
This (read the full statement in the first image below) is brilliant ...
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How the Lead industry deliberately utilized systemic racism to deflect blame for poisoning generations of children
Note:
My husband and I have been working on writing this article for a few weeks now. We have done our best to present this information in a way that gives the reader historical context and demonstrates these issues as endemic in for-profit-industry over the past century and beyond. The opinions we ...
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Now and then I share my site stats with my readers so you can see why I am so grateful for your support of this work.
Scroll down to see full full-sized chart!
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 ...
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Typical fire hydrant: 281,300 ppm Lead. 90 ppm Lead (& up) is unsafe for kids. Please keep kids away from hydrants!
A typical fire hydrant
Fire hydrants are attractive to children. They are at child-height. They are often painted in bright colors. Children like the idea of firemen as heroes, so a hydrant is an object that evokes a certain cultural excitement for little kids. Children LOVE to play on them, ...
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Lead poisoning prevention is political. This is a post I wrote on the Lead Safe Mama Facebook page (July 20, 2020).
I wrote the following in response to all of the comments on my LeadSafeMama Facebook page recently (comments from my readers specifically asking me to stop sharing political posts on my Facebook page):
Click through to Facebook here to read all of the comments
(68 as of the moment of publishing ...
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Vintage 1972 Wooden Fisher Price puzzle. 3,925 ppm Cadmium on the knobs. Cadmium is a known carcinogen.
Are vintage Fisher Price puzzles a concern?
Yes. A child will often chew on the knobs on this type of puzzle and these knobs (yellow or red) are consistently high-Cadmium vintage plastic. Cadmium causes cancer. Even if the risk is small it is not a risk that I feel is worth it given the inexpensive ...
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“Crazy Korean Cooking” Premium Korean Dolsot Stone Bowl: *Lead-free, as advertised* (Rare!)
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Crazy Korean Cooking Ceramic Bowl
This Korean ceramic cooking bowl is Lead-Free (as advertised on their packaging). It is not, however, technically entirely Cadmium-Free — as there are traces of Cadmium - in the red ...
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The National Lead Company used kids as a tool to help market & sell toxic Lead Paint to parents via booklets like this one.
The National Lead Company used kids as a tool to help market & sell toxic Lead Paint products to their parents via children's activity booklets like this "Dutch Boy Paint and Question Book" (c. 1932?)
A little background:
Historians David Rosner and Jerry Markowitz have discussed the ...
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How did you spend your stimulus check? Here’s how we spent ours… (from a mother of 4 giant – & growing – boys!)
Friday - July 17, 2020
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socks
underwear
groceries
college
paint
Here's how the Rubin Family spent our CoViD-19 stimulus funds...
I wanted to share this (fairly personal bit of information) with my readers for a few reasons...
With readers of this blog in "over 200 countries" (per ...
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