1905 door latch (black painted metal)
Original door hardware in a 1905 home.
Lead (Pb): 3,628 +/- 507 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 362 +/- 220 ppm
Copper (Cu): 1,014 +/- 367 ppm
Iron (Fe): 544,900 +/- 39,000 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 1,109 +/- 373 ppm
Chlorine (Cl): 3,672 +/- 1,995 ppm
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Modern brass door slide lock: 52,600 ppm Lead + 477 ppm Antimony.
Modern brass door slide lock
Lead (Pb): 52,600 +/- 2,000 ppm
Antimony (Sb): 477 +/- 161 ppm
Selenium (Se): 18,800 +/- 900 ppm
Tin (Sn): 22,000 +/- 600 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 370,900 +/- 3,000 ppm
Copper (Cu): 521,500 +/- 3,400 ppm
Nickel (Ni): 2,044 +/- 238 ppm
Iron (Fe): 8,513 +/- ...
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1989 Colorforms Batman Adventure set: Lead-free, Arsenic-free, positive for 45 ppm Cadmium + 77 ppm Antimony
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1993 Barney Travel Pak Colorforms set: Lead-free, Arsenic-free, Mercury-free, and 27 ppm Cadmium
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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Corelle “Forever Yours” dish: 15,300 ppm Lead + 269 Cadmium + 1,678 Arsenic. It’s your choice to eat off these – or not!
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 ...
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Good News Everyone, in spite of everything… LeadSafeMama.com is doing okay! (We’re still here!)
Monday, June 15, 2020
As my regular readers know, I usually share periodic updates with the Lead Safe Mama website and social media stats. I do that to share the successes with my readers, so that you have a way to measure the impact you are helping to make in the world with this information!
In ...
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Marbles from Dollar Tree Store test positive for Lead, Arsenic, Antimony and Cadmium (using XRF technology)
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 ...
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“100% Natural” 2019 Eco-Wedge Crayons. Purple tested positive for trace levels of Arsenic. Other colors tested clean.
100% Natural Eco-Wedge Crayons from 2019
For the testing done on these crayons, each test was done for a minimum of 180 seconds (3 minutes) and repeated multiple times to confirm the results. One full set of results for each color crayon in this set is noted below.
While high-precision XRF ...
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Seattle Space Needle collectors token. Tested positive for 1,245 ppm Arsenic using XRF technology.
Seattle Space Needle Collectable Token
Arsenic (As): 1,245 +/- 164 ppm
Selenium (Se): 11,000 +/- 800 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 153,700 +/- 2,400 ppm
Copper (Cu): 824,900 +/- 4,200 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 985 +- 168 ppm
Chlorine (Cl): 7,018 +/- 3,099 ppm
Some additional reading that may ...
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Vintage cream colored Sta-Kleen Slater electrical outlet (USA): 12 ppm Arsenic (but no Lead in the plastic!)
Exterior plastic rectangle of outlet:
Barium (Ba): 244 +/- 91 ppm
Bromine (Br): 8 +/- 3 ppm
Gold (Au): 57 +/- 22 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 3,933 +/- 58 ppm
Iron (Fe): 195 +/- 23 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 351 +/- 65 ppm
Chlorine (Cl): 2,119 +/- 722 ppm
Socket (owl face) of outlet:
Zinc ...
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Handmade ceramic mug [markings: “G. Nikolaou”; “2000”] – 351,500 ppm Lead (this is an alarmingly high level of Lead)
Posted: June 13, 2020
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Sasaki colorstone matte white ceramic saucer, made in Japan: Lead-free on the food surface. Back mark: 442 ppm Lead.
XRF test results for the white ceramic Sasaki saucer pictured here:
Food surface of dish:
Barium (Ba): 25,200 +/- 900 ppm
Selenium (Se): 70 +/- 42 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 12,000 +/- 500 ppm
Iron (Fe): 465 +/- 156 ppm
Bismuth (Bi): 51 +/- 31 ppm
Black back mark of dish: ...
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Buckingham Palace Royal Birdsong English Fine Bone China: 11,900 ppm Lead. (We need to talk to the Queen about this!)
Published: June 13, 2020
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Blue-rimmed drinking glass: 152 +/- 48 ppm Lead (this is likely safe given the Lead is probably bound in the glass at this level)
Side of glass:
Lead (Pb): 105 +/- 24 ppm
Barium (Ba): 2,912 +/- 475 ppm
Iron (Fe): 297 +/- 116 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 495 +/- 68 ppm
Focus on blue rim of glass:
Lead (Pb): 152 +/- 48 ppm
Barium (Ba): 3,416 +/- 818 ppm
Iron (Fe): 453 +/- 211 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 512 +/- 92 ...
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