Introduction (for those new to this website):
Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF ...
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Recent & Important Articles:
Did you know fireworks can have Lead or other toxic metals? Here are #LeadSafeMama’s tips for a Lead-safe 4th of July!
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 ...
Read More about Did you know fireworks can have Lead or other toxic metals? Here are #LeadSafeMama’s tips for a Lead-safe 4th of July!
Coming soon: A #LeadSafeMama Baby Registry! Stay tuned. Moms, tell me what you want to see on a shopping guide!
Tell me what you want to see on this guide!
Here are some of the categories of things I plan on including:
Bottles
Blankets
Nursing Bras
Diapers
Clothing
Shoes
Dishes
Toys
Personal Care Products
Nursery Furnishings
I want to know what YOU want to see on this ...
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#SiteStats: Tonight (6/30/19) the #LeadSafeMama site passed 3,500,000 unique all-time page views! Thank you!
Tonight (June 30, 2019), the #LeadSafeMama website just passed the milestone of 3,500,000 unique all-time page views!
In reaching this goal this month, we also broke another record... As of this moment (not yet midnight on June 30th), 2,082,829 of those unique page views happened in the past six ...
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Louis Vuitton Bag, c. 2001: 258 ppm Arsenic + 5,943 ppm Lead. 90 ppm is unsafe. Does your child play with yours?
The owner of this purse told me she purchased it new about 20 years ago, which would put the year of the manufacture date somewhere around 1999.
[Update: owner got back to me and pinned it down a little further, she purchased it in Paris on a trip to Europe in 2001.]
I have known for years ...
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Kids drinking from the hose this summer? Maybe don’t let them? Hose pictured is 22,300 ppm Lead. 90 is unsafe.
Originally Published: June 30, 2019
Updated: July 2, 2021
Who doesn't have the childhood memory of the sensation of putting their mouth up against the cool bubbling water right at the end of the hose to drink on a hot summer day? I certainly do!
The concern for Lead in hoses is two-fold: ...
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#TamarasTravelTips: I rented a car in Los Angeles (at LAX) for $22.98! Whaaa. (Just one of my little adventures on the road.)
I am probably writing this more for myself than for you - as a bit of a "journal entry" of the stuff I have to put up with in my life to do what I do to help families around the country — but maybe one or two of you might find this as amusing as I do (if you go for dry-mundane-humor type of ...
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Hello Southern California — Lead Safe Mama is in your neighborhood for the next two weeks!
Hello all!
I am currently on a flight to Southern California (LAX) and will be "in the area" for the next two weeks!
[As my home is in Portland, Oregon these days, at this point for me, "southern California" loosely includes pretty much "anywhere south of the San Francisco Bay Area"! lol ...
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Vintage Cream Corelle Plate With Peach Tulip Buds: 28,500 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + 150 Cadmium
For those new to this website:
Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a ...
Read More about Vintage Cream Corelle Plate With Peach Tulip Buds: 28,500 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + 150 Cadmium
Sango Vega Aqua Square Ceramic Dish: 1,219 ppm Lead (90 is considered unsafe in items for use by kids).
Oops - this broke in shipping! If you are sending me something to test, please make sure it is very well packed. Here's a link about how to participate in the collaborative testing I do with my readers.
When tested with an XRF instrument the green and white Sango brand dish pictured here had the ...
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Target Threshold Small Green “Joy” Stoneware Dish: 255 ppm Lead (90 is considered unsafe in items for use by kids)
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 ...
Read More about Target Threshold Small Green “Joy” Stoneware Dish: 255 ppm Lead (90 is considered unsafe in items for use by kids)
Target Threshold Tiny Orange Stoneware Dish: 362 ppm Cadmium + 87 ppm Lead.
When tested with an XRF instrument the (tiny) orange and white Threshold brand dish (from Target) pictured here had the following readings:
Test focused on area of dish with orange glaze:
(this glaze is inside on the food-surface of the dish)
Cadmium (Cd): 362 +/- 24 ppm
Barium (Ba): ...
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Target Threshold Small Orange Stoneware Dish: 384 ppm Cadmium + 108 ppm Lead.
When tested with an XRF instrument the orange and white Threshold brand dish (from Target) pictured here had the following readings:
Test focused on area of dish with orange glaze:
(this glaze is inside and outside of dish & had similar readings in both locations.)
Cadmium (Cd): ...
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Corelle Coordinates White Stoneware Dish with Black Stripe Design: 92 ppm Lead (within safe range).
When tested with an XRF instrument the dish pictured here had the following readings:
Test focused on area of dish with black stripe:
Lead (Pb): 92 +/- 34 ppm
Barium (Ba): 2,744 +/- 235 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 1,999 +/- 185 ppm
Antimony (Sb): 95 +/- 45 ppm
Tin (Sn): 303 +/- 47 ppm ...
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