#SaferChoices — Casserole dishes: “How do I choose a Lead-free casserole dish?” (Including FIVE Lead-free examples available today!)
#SaferChoices: Casserole Dishes How do I choose a Lead-free casserole dish? Published: October 14, 2017 Updated: February 27, 2024 This is an ad-free article. At the bottom of this article I have shared FIVE #SaferChoices for casserole dishes that are likely to be Lead-free, based on my (more than 13 years of) experience testing…
Corningware “Etch” Casserole Dish (New, 2017)
Corningware “Etch”, New (2017). 230 ppm lead on the outside. 91 ppm lead on the inside. Tested with an XRF Instrument. Here is my Amazon Affiliate link for this product: http://amzn.to/2yomjYF These levels are considered safe by most standards. Most likely leach tested (and most likely passed!). Comments on the original Facebook post for this piece reiterate my…
#LeadFree: HF Coors New White Mug
HF Coors New White Mug #LeadFree Tested “non-detect” for lead using an XRF instrument Here are some products from this company on Amazon*. If you are interested in supporting my independent advocacy work and consumer goods testing, please consider making a contribution via the link below. Thank you! Http://www.GoFundMe.com/LeadSafeMama *Some of the links on this page…
Vintage (1960s/1970s) green glass Indiana Glass Kings Crown thumbprint design sorbet dish: Lead Free!
Originally published: October 14, 2017 Updated: June 26, 2020 – Friday This little green glass ice-cream dish / custard cup tested NEGATIVE for Lead (Pb) when tested with a high-precision XRF instrument testing in “consumer goods” mode. This is actually one of the items I bought for my book [not yet published, title: I Make…
Jewelry: Lady Bug Charm, Enamel
Lady bug charm: 17,100 parts per million (ppm) lead. The amount of lead that is considered toxic in an item intended for children is anything 90 parts per million lead or higher. Most vintage enamel pieces are very high lead, usually closer to 400,000 ppm lead! With an item as small as this one – the…
Vintage blue speckled enamelware camping spoon: 412 ppm Lead in the food-surface enamel.
Post Published: October 14, 2017 Vintage enamelware camping spoon 412 parts per million (ppm) lead. As tested with an XRF instrument. How much Lead is too much Lead? The amount of lead that is considered unsafe in the coating (paint, glaze, etc.) of an item intended for children is 90 ppm lead. Dishware and vintage…
Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow Glass Baby Bottle: Lead-free, but trace Cadmium found in the glass of the bottle & nipple
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 four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama,…
Luigi Bormioli Tumbler, c. 2017: Lead-Free Clear Glass
Clear glass #LeadFree Non-Detect for Lead with an XRF instrument Amazon Affiliate link for this product: http://amzn.to/2vS2zbl New (not vintage) Luigi Bormioli (not marked.) – Please consider supporting my independent consumer goods testing by making a contribution here! Thank you. https://tamararubin.com/2017/01/chip-in/
Target Home “ramekin”, White Ceramic
Target Home ramekin White ceramic Similar to the product on this Amazon Affiliate link: http://amzn.to/2er4WvC Tested with an XRF 38 +/- 24 ppm lead #LowLead #LeadSafe Safe by all standards – Please consider supporting my independent consumer goods testing by making a contribution here. Thank you! https://tamararubin.com/2017/01/chip-in/
Ball Brand Baby Food Jar with Plastic Lid
Small Ball Jar with plastic lid #LeadFree Tested “non-detect” for lead using an XRF instrument Amazon Affiliate Link: http://amzn.to/2vRng7q All components tested. – Please consider supporting my independent consumer goods advocacy work at: Http://www.GoFundMe.com/LeadSafeMama
2017 Oxo Glass Cube, Baby Food Storage: Lead and Cadmium Free in all components.
These are so cool! I really love the glass food storage with the snap lids with silicone sealing bands. I think they are a terrific product type (as long as the writing on the exterior of the jar is not painted with Lead paint… as is the case with these!) I wish they had these…
We got the letter from the IRS this week!
This post is a follow up to the recent posts sharing about my story about what has happened to my advocacy over the past 18 months.Consistent with what I have known and said from the start, and as summarized in my attorney’s letter, earlier this week I received the confirmation letter below from the IRS notifying…
September 2017 Stats
Not surprising… visits to my site in September were on the “low” side! (only 28,674 unique hits – no where near the 70,000+ from the #FidgetSpinner chaos of June! 🙂 … This is a really good illustration of how the work and focus required for my current situation (read more about that here) detracts from…
Avi’s New Year’s Resolutions, #2017 / #5778
My son Avi is 12-1/2 years old (he’ll be 13 in January actually), he just started 7th grade. He’s the boy in blue at the middle of this picture taken earlier this month! You can click the image to see it full size if you like! Avi was acutely lead poisoned when he was just…
Harvard study challenges assumptions on ‘natural’ Lead levels
This is one of the most important articles I have read in quite some time. It is long but worth the read! Click the image below to read the full article. This article was originally published on May 30, 2017.
AJ update. (AJ is my 15 year old son who was lead poisoned when he was about 3 years old.)
Originally posted September 23, 2017 A.J. turned 15 in July. He is absolutely brilliant (his last measured I.Q. – 5 years ago at age 9 – was 124) — in spite of his acute lead poisoning as a toddler. His ongoing symptoms from having been lead poisoned as a child include dyslexia, severe ADHD and…
“The Kenton Lead Blob” ( Video ) Filmed in 2016
For more information about this video and project, click here. This is a short (10-minute) video about lead contamination in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The thing I personally like best about this video is how it captures the level of activity at my old office…all the drop-ins, the team of volunteers and helpers who…
My “magic” solution: fabric paint…
“What to do if your paint is chipping and you cannot afford to hire a painter right away…” This is my bathroom mirror (click on any of the images to see them full size). One of the hats I wear in my life is that I am a visual artist (painter, designer, costume designer, filmmaker)….
Must Watch Video: “Naturally Occurring Lead”
The False Argument That All Heavy Metals Found In Foods Are “Naturally Occurring.” I find the commentator’s attempts at sarcastic humor excessive and distracting, but the presentation’s content is quite serious and right on the money, so try to suspend judgement on the his style and focus on his message [and in watching this, consider some…
How you can help, September 2017
If I am going to continue my work as a lead poisoning prevention advocate I need your help to cover my legal costs and other expenses related to defending my innocence in light of all that has happened this past year (story link here.) If you can donate, please do. Any amount makes a difference! you can give…
The “Short” Version Of The Story…
This is the short version of the story. For the long version of the story… click here! In February of 2016 I organized a town hall event with Bernie Sanders in Flint. The intention was to provide information to parents in Flint about the long-term impacts of lead poisoning on their children. [I did also…
Tamara’s XRF Training Certificate (February 3, 2009)
Click on the image below to see the full two pages, including the certificate and the accompanying letter. I received this certificate following my February 3, 2009 training.
September 2017 Amazon Affiliate Update
With your help I have earned $3,784.28 so far (in the past 9.5 months!) in support of my advocacy work from your clicks on my Amazon Affiliate links – mostly through my #SaferChoices posts! [That’s an average of $315.35 a month!] Please consider starting your holiday shopping with my Amazon affiliate links. TIA! To start, maybe grab…
Here’s the story I’ve been waiting to tell.
The IRS wanted to charge me $547,830.30 in taxes and fines for expenses related to running the nonprofit I founded, for my work helping families with lead poisoned children. In the end they adjusted the amount due to $0. [In fact I am awaiting a tax-refund!] In 2017 we live in a “guilty until…