When tested with an XRF instrument, the hand-painted Mexican tile pictured here had the following readings:
Lead (Pb): 46,200 +/- 2,300 ppm
Barium (Ba): 3,011 +/- 366 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 6,308 +/- 1,185 ppm
This tile was non-detect (negative) for: Cadmium (Cd), Arsenic (As), Mercury ...
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Mexican tiles often have unsafe levels of Lead. Tile pictured: 74,000 ppm Lead. > 90 ppm is illegal in modern house paint.
When tested with an XRF instrument, the hand-painted Mexican tile pictured here had the following readings:
Lead (Pb): 74,000 +/- 3,200 ppm
Barium (Ba): 2,522 +/- 281 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 5,608 +/- 914 ppm
Antimony (Sb): 2,438 +/- 210 ppm
This tile was non-detect (negative) for: ...
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Mexican tiles often have unsafe levels of Lead. Tile pictured: 49,100 ppm Lead. > 90 ppm is illegal in modern house paint.
When tested with an XRF instrument, the hand-painted Mexican tile pictured here had the following readings:
Lead (Pb): 49,100 +/- 2,100 ppm
Barium (Ba): 3,765 +/- 367 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 5,400 +/- 947 ppm
This tile was non-detect (negative) for: Cadmium (Cd), Arsenic (As), Mercury (Hg), ...
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#LeadSafeMama Fun Facts: In June 2019 this site had more than FOUR TIMES as many views as it did in June 2018!
More fun #LeadSafeMama stats!
LeadSafeMama.com closed out June 2019 with 186,506 unique views from more than 56,000 people in more than 100 countries! [Our people and countries numbers are reporting artificially on the low-side for this month because of Google Analytics glitch from May 15 to June ...
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‘Handmade’ does not always equal ‘safe’. Barrettes, bought at a 2018 Los Angeles craft fair: 36,600 ppm Lead. 90 is unsafe.
These were purchased by a friend of mine in Santa Monica in the last year. (Actually my friend's mother purchased them for her toddler granddaughter to use). They were purchased at a downtown Los Angeles handmade crafts fair, and made and sold expressly intended for use by children.
Most of these ...
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“Made in Italy” saucer – purchased new at Crate & Barrel in 2006: 46,700 ppm Lead. [90 ppm is unsafe for kids.]
Most decorative Crate and Barrel-purchased dishware that I have tested over the years has been positive for high levels of Lead.
Here is the full XRF reading for the food surface of the plate pictured.
Plain white center of food surface of saucer:
Lead (Pb): 29,100 +/- 700 ...
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Royal Stafford Fine Earthenware Plate. English, from Crate & Barrel in 2006: 71,900 ppm Lead. [90 is unsafe for kids.]
I was excited to finally test this plate as I have had several readers ask me if this pattern has Lead. In general (as a rule) most "Royal Stafford" dishes (or "Staffordshire" - or "Made In England" for that matter!) I have tested have been positive for high levels of Lead and most ...
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#LeadSafeMama Fun Facts: As of this morning, July 7, this website has more views so far this month than all of July, 2018!
Thanks to your ongoing support, as of 9:17 this morning (Pacific Time), for July this, website has had 43,799 unique views so far. This is compared to ALL of last July (2018) - with 43,621 views!
We have had more unique views (and more readers on this site) in the first week of July, 2019 than we ...
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1996 Dave And Buster’s Collectable Coin: Lead Free [29% Zinc, 70% Copper!]
Recently a reader of mine (and actually a long-time friend in the Lead-poisoning prevention world) contacted me to ask if I had ever tested one of these Dave and Buster's coins. I was not at all familiar with Dave and Buster's, but I looked it up and this appears to be a coin similar to those that ...
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That 4th of July when my son freaked-me-the-f out by doing something he saw on YouTube (video)
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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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 ...
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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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