To learn more about XRF testing, Click HERE.
Please do take a moment to read the exact XRF test results for this item (below), so you can see what is in it (as well as a bit of a list of what is not in it!)
To see more Crate & Barrel items I have tested, Click HERE.
While ...
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Recent & Important Articles:
Threshold by Target (Made in Portugal) glazed terracotta appetizer dish: 4,000 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for 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 ...
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Crate & Barrel (Thailand) Floral Plate: 80,300 ppm Lead [90 is unsafe for kids] + 444 ppm Cadmium [causes cancer.]
To learn more about XRF testing, Click HERE.
Please do take a moment to read the exact XRF test results for this item (below), so you can see what is in it (as well as a bit of a list of what is not in it!)
To see more Crate & Barrel items I have tested, Click HERE.
While ...
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Today would be an excellent day to “chip-in” in support of my independent consumer goods testing and Lead poisoning prevention advocacy work. TIA
Do you appreciate the independent consumer goods testing that I write about on my website and on social media?
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If so, today would be an excellent day to chip in to help cover the cost of this work (work which is fully funded by YOU, my readers.)
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I need to raise at least $300 to make a ...
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Opportunities to Invest in Lead Safe Mama’s Work: Why? What? When? How?
Lead Safe Mama, LLC is GROWING...
...I've written this post because maybe you (my readers) know someone who might be interested in supporting this work in a big way while also getting something in return.
As my regular readers know, this is work that really no one else is doing in the same ...
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June 8, 2019 Lead Safe Mama Newsletter
#LeadSafeMama Update
Saturday - June 08, 2019
Hello, and Happy Saturday! I have a few things I wanted to update you all on today...
#1... I'm in Chicago until June 17th [for a conference, and for home visits and outreach events with families], and I have still have ...
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Caveman Cups “Extreme Use” Stainless Steel Cub Plates: #Safe! Non-detect for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury & Arsenic.
I have recommended products from Caveman Cups for at least a couple of years (since I first found them online and then shortly after confirmed they were an excellent [lead-free!] choice when I tested them at the homes of a few of my readers!)
Here's my Amazon affiliate link for these plates: ...
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Purple Satin Chinese Nesting Zippered Purse Purchased in San Francisco’s China Town – 2018: Lead Free
Published: June 6, 2019
This purse came with a set of 7 purses, each incrementally smaller and nested inside each other. It was purchased in 2018 at one of the gift shops ubiquitous in San Francisco's China Town. It does not have a label or maker's mark.
When tested with an XRF ...
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Talk Show “Set Mugs” Series (Used By Hosts & Guests) The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Lead Free & Cadmium Free!
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Set Mug: Lead-Free, Cadmium-Free, Arsenic-Free - because of course it is! You rock Ellen!
When tested with an XRF instrument, this gray and white Ellen show official set mug had the following readings:
White text on outside of mug:
Barium (Ba): 1,969 +/- 130 ppm ...
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Talk Show “Set Mugs” Series (Used By Hosts & Guests) Today Show: 830 ppm Cadmium (75 is illegal in Denmark)
When tested with an XRF instrument, this orange and white Today Show official set mug had the following readings:
White on outside of mug:
Lead (Pb): 88 +/- 23 ppm [considered safe by all standards.]
Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-detect
Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-detect
Mercury ...
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Talk Show “Set Mugs” Series (Used By Hosts & Guests) The Talk: 1,829 ppm Cadmium (75 ppm Cd is illegal in Denmark)
When tested with an XRF instrument, this mug had the following readings:
White on outside of mug:
Lead (Pb): Negative / Non-detect
Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-detect
Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-detect
Mercury (Hg): Negative / Non-detect
Antimony (Sb): Negative / Non-detect ...
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CertifiedKit.com just renewed their discount code for my readers! Your kids can test THEIR school’s water, too!
EXTRA! EXTRA! This just in!
Thanks to Avi's activism (this post here, in case you have not read it yet), the lead-in-water- test kit company that we used for the testing he did just renewed their discount code for my readers!
A big thank you to all of my friends at ...
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My name is Avi Rubin. I’m 14. I was lead poisoned as a baby in 2005. Today (in 2019) my school is poisoning my friends.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Portland, Oregon
My mom is one of the leading experts on Lead Poisoning Prevention in the world. She started doing Lead Poisoning Prevention advocacy because I was acutely Lead-Poisoned as a baby (when I was 7 months old.) [See Avi's story here.]
I have been very ...
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A request: Do you want to help make sure this work keeps going? Here’s how you can help…
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