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Target-branded Philips plug-in Warm White LED Christmas lights strand with white wire: Lead-free!!
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 ...
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Walmart Holiday Time plug-in Christmas Lights: Lead-free! (8,188 ppm Antimony — a fire retardant & known carcinogen)
This newly-purchased (2018) set of Walmart brand "Holiday Time" 16 Function Multicolor Mini Lights (pictured above with 150 lights and a green wire strand) was tested with an XRF instrument. It was not disassembled for testing, so only accessible parts that one would normally ...
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Ace Hardware Branded Christmas Lights, 2018 Warning: “This product can expose you to chemicals including Lead.”
"This product can expose you to chemicals including Lead..."
I stopped in at our local Ace Hardware the other day to check out their selection of Christmas lights. The images on this page are of one set of lights from that store.
These are the Ace Hardware-branded lights (ACH ...
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Johnson Brothers English Greydawn Teacup & Saucer: 37,400+ ppm Lead [90 ppm Lead is unsafe for kids.]
When tested with an XRF instrument this Johnson Brothers "Greydawn" teacup & saucer had the following readings when tested with an XRF instrument:
Lead (Pb): 37,400 +/- 800 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): Negative / Non-Detect
Arsenic (As): Negative / Non-Detect
Mercury (Hg): Negative / ...
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Johnson Brothers Fine English China with scalloped edges: 70,000+ ppm Lead [90 is unsafe for kids.]
This post was originally published December 2, 2018
Updated December 1, 2019
When tested with an XRF instrument this Johnson Brothers "Fine English China" White Plate With Scalloped Edges was positive for Lead at greater than 70,000 ppm.
Why is this much Lead a problem?
For context, in 2019 ...
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Do you want me to test your artificial Christmas tree for Lead? Click for more info.
June 2023 Update:
We are no longer accepting
artificial Christmas tree samples
for testing at this time.
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Evidence Of How Much I Type! (& a request)…
December 2, 2018
Well... if you follow my blog you know I write A LOT.
Sometimes I write 10 or 15 blog posts in a day (if my kids are out of the way for an extended period of time and I have no distractions!) Usually my blog posts are just 2 or 3 pages long, but sometimes they are 5, 10 ...
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#QUESTION: Does kitty litter have Lead? ANSWER: Yes, it may, and if it does it’s a big problem. Here’s why…
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2018 PlanetBox BottleRocket Capsule Water Bottle: Lead-Free In All Accessible Components
2018 PlanetBox BottleRocket Capsule Water Bottle
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All accessible components of this PlanetBox water bottle were tested with an XRF instrument. Destructive testing was not used (the product was not forcibly disassembled for testing beyond how it would ...
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2018 Seedles Southwest Wildflower Seed Balls: Lead Free
When tested with an XRF instrument these seed balls had the following readings (if a metal is not listed it was not detected):
Orange Balls:
Barium (Ba): 1,470 +/- 94 ppm
Chromium (Cr): 115 +/- 35 ppm
Bromine (Br): 4 +/- 2 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 48 +/- 9 ppm
Copper (Cu): 32 +/- 11 ppm ...
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Pink Yeti Rambler 20 oz. Tumbler: Lead-Free in all Accessible Components (Leaded sealing dot is under stainless bottom cap)
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 ...
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I will never cease to be amazed by the truly global reach of this work! Thank you!
The images (above and below) are screenshots from Google Analytics listing the locations of all of my readers - and how many readers are in each location. These images are just for the month of November, 2018.
According to the stats, the total readers of my blog this past month was 60,673 people ...
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Artificial (c. 2008) Christmas tree from Costco: 5,896 ppm Lead (90 ppm is unsafe for kids)
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