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Pottery Barn Portugese Dish: 363 ppm Lead. 90 ppm is unsafe in kids’ items [but dishes aren’t used by kids, right?]

Pottery Barn Dishes, “Spiral” Pattern

October 2015 Recall of Pottery Barn Kids Water Bottles

Pottery Barn Green “Swirl” Ceramic Bowl: 5,215 ppm Lead. 90 is unsafe for kids’ items.

Vintage 1951 Book – Sex Without Fear: 226 ppm Lead + 24 ppm Arsenic.

Vintage Book: Come to The Farm, 1949

Vintage Metal Desk, c. 1960s?

Vintage Vinyl Measuring Tape (for Sewing): 19,900 ppm Lead. [90 ppm Lead is unsafe for kids.]

Tape Measures: Contractor Grade — is your measuring tape Lead-free?

Vintage (1980s?) Fisher Price sorting toy for infants and toddlers

Vintage 1970s Fisher Price School Bus Toy: 90 ppm Lead

#LeadFree: Vintage Fisher Price Family Play Farm Set – Barn

Vintage Fisher Price Plastic Toy Syringe: 6,331 ppm Lead. 90 ppm Lead (& up) in consumer goods is unsafe for kids.

Vintage Lite-Brite, c. 1970s: 21,900 ppm Lead

Vintage Purse (c. 1960s?): 6,060 ppm Lead. 90 ppm and up is unsafe for kids. Do your kids play with vintage purses?

Vintage Fisher Price Parking Garage: 1,538 ppm Lead in the yellow plastic. 422 in the white. 90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids.

Vintage Fisher Price Little People

Did Toxic Rum Kill These 19th Century British Soldiers

A pill to “cure” lead poisoning?

Reuters Article: Despite Progress, Lead Hazards Vex New York

New feature: “Contractor’s Corner” guest posts

#AskTamara: Where can I test for Lead using a LeadCheck Swab or other reactive agent home test?

Nov. 8, 2017: The time my work went viral & was featured on CBS This Morning for my discovery of Lead in fidget spinners.

Update From Tamara: IRS, DOJ, LSAF, ETC.