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 were acutely ...
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#AskTamara: Do Glass Dragon Tears Have Lead? (Aka: Squashed Marbles, Glass Drops or Mancala Stones?)
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Question: Do dragon tears have lead?
Answer: Some do and some do not.
Given the nature of the way most colored glass is commonly produced, many dragon tears do have at least some lead, and some have quite high amounts of lead — at levels considered dangerous for children by ...
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#AskTamara: Are my kids’ crayons toxic? Which brand of crayons is safe? Crayola? Filana? Stockmar? Honey Sticks?
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 were ...
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Auntie Tammy’s Pet Safe & Kid Safe DIY Ant Bait Traps
While this is "not lead related" ("NLR" or "NPbR") it is related to keeping kids (& pets) safe from environmental toxicity.
It seems like at some point everybody gets ants (at least in Massachusetts, California and Oregon (the three states where I have spent the most time)! I don't ...
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Are your vintage “Little People” toxic? Sesame Street Friends, Vintage (c. 1970s) Fisher Price Little People
Do you remember these Sesame Street Friends from when you were a child? I do! (From friend's houses! My mom never got us toys like this! We were so jealous of all of the other kids who had plastic toys!)
Click on their names to see how much lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury each of these vintage ...
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#LeadFree: Vintage (c. 1970s) Fisher Price Sesame Street Grover Monster
Vintage (c. 1970s) Fisher Price Sesame Street Grover Monster:
Lead (Pb): ND (non-detect)
Cadmium (Cd): ND (non-detect)
Mercury (Hg): ND (non-detect)
Arsenic (As): ND (non-detect)
Please check out the other Sesame Street things I have tested here!
Please check out more of the ...
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#Leaded: Vintage (c. 1970s?) Fisher Price Little People Sesame Street Ernie
Vintage (c. 1970s) Fisher Price Sesame Street Ernie:
Red body:
Lead (Pb): 30 +/- 13 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): 3,153 +/- 65 ppm.
Orange head:
Lead (Pb): ND (non-detect)
Cadmium (Cd): 3,394 +/- 74 ppm.
Due to the very high cadmium levels this would not be considered a safe toy for a ...
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#Leaded: Vintage (c. 1970s?) Fisher Price Little People Sesame Street Bert
Vintage (c. 1970s?) Fisher Price Sesame Street Bert...
Green body:
Lead (Pb): 5,015 +/- 103 ppm
Arsenic (As): 120 +/- 56 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): ND (non-detect/negative)
Mercury (Hg): ND (non-detect/negative)
Face:
Lead (Pb): ND (non-detect/negative)
Cadmium (Cd) 35 +/- 10 ...
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Vintage (1970s?) Sesame Street Fisher Price Little People Doll – Susan: 28 ppm Lead (Lead-safe by all modern standards)
When tested with an XRF instrument (in consumer goods mode) this vintage Fisher Price Sesame Street Susan doll had the following reading for Lead...
Hair: 28 +/- 6 ppm.
This amount of lead is considered safe by all standards.
All other components of this doll were non-detect for Cadmium, Lead, ...
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Bauer Vintage Celadon Pottery, Los Angeles: 210,800 ppm Lead (21%!). Context: 90 ppm is unsafe for kids.
This is a set of Bauer Vintage Celadon Pottery, Made In Los Angeles and purchased at an antique store in Portland, Oregon in 2017. When tested with an XRF instrument each of the pieces tested positive for the elements at the levels shown below.
Note: the lead levels below are VERY HIGH, and I ...
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Vintage (c. 1938-1960) Ceramic Harlequin by Homer Laughlin Co. Fiesta Plate: 287,600 ppm Lead [90 ppm is unsafe].
This little yellow plate was purchased at an antique store in Oregon in 2018. While there is not a maker's mark on the back of the dish, the store owner had researched the plate and came up with this description: Vintage Yellow Ceramic Harlequin by Homer Laughlin Co. Fiesta Plate, c. ...
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My sons, AJ (age16) & Avi (age 13) performing Tom Lehrer’s The Elements Song
Originally posted July 28, 2018. [Watch the fun 90-second video below!]
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My kiddo is 16 today! He’s headed 3,000 miles away to Tufts on Tuesday for an internship with Tufts Biomedical Engineering Silk Lab (where they are pioneering medical and other breakthroughs applications using the building ...
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Ceramcor Xtrema “Metals-Free” Saucepan Positive For Lead, Cadmium, Cobalt, Iron, Nickel, Chromium and other metals when tested with an XRF instrument.
In August of 2018 I tested yet another Ceramcor Xtrema "Lead-Free" pan that ended up being positive for lead.This pan was purchased direct from the company, c. November of 2016.
These pans are advertised and promoted as being metals-free, and specifically as being lead-free — yet when ...
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#LeadSafeMama Financial Update, July 2018
Since you all are directly responsible for helping me earn $ to cover the costs of my advocacy work (and hopefully eventually this will turn into enough to make a living so I can actually AFFORD to continue do this full time!) I wanted to share with you periodic updates on what you are helping to ...
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