Hello! Happy Holidays!
Let me start by saying a few things...
#1) I don’t happen to celebrate Christmas (we’re Jewish - although December 25th is my late mother’s birthday(!), so we do take the day to remember her and spend it with family!)
#2) I don’t buy much of anything at all for my family — ...
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Lead Safe Mama’s tips for Lead-safe Halloween costumes & parties
For those new to this 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 sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). ...
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Original vinyl bench for 1975 Hammond organ: 4,138 ppm Lead, 370 Arsenic, 21 Cadmium + 835 Antimony!
When tested with an XRF instrument the vinyl covered bench for this 1975 Hammond organ had the following readings:
Brown vinyl seat of organ bench:
Lead (Pb): 4,138 +/- 113 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): 21 +/- 8 ppm
Arsenic (As): 370 +/- 102 ppm
Barium (Ba): 15,600 +/- 300 ppm
Chromium (Cr): ...
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Why do VINTAGE plastics (like Fisher Price & Tupperware) often contain Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, & Cadmium?
For starters, please consider reading this linked study (click the image below) which discusses this concern in detail:
There are two reasons vintage plastics often have Lead:
In brightly-colored vintage plastics, the metallic toxicants (Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, and Cadmium) ...
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c. 2014 Littman Nurses’ Stethoscope: 1,828 ppm Lead in the tubing. Why is medical equipment positivie for ANY amount of Lead?
3M Littman Brand Nurse's stethoscope with red tubing:
1,828 ppm lead (What!!!!?) in the red tubing. New item owned by a professional nurse, tested in 2014.
In my personal opinion medical equipment should not test positive for any Lead at all!
The amount of Lead that is considered toxic in an ...
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