Published: June 18, 2018
Updated: August 7, 2022
While I have known about the potential for lead in vintage amusement park rides for a long time, I haven't spent a lot of time quantifying these potential hazards. The vintage train ride pictured here (a coin operated ride active in 2018 at Sonoma ...
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Thank you! – June 2, 2018
If you would like to join these people in supporting my advocacy work please click here! Every penny makes a difference. This is an especially crucial time for me to stay on top of things. Our next step is to sue the agencies who pursued false charges against me (charges based on allegations that ...
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Vintage Winnie The Pooh Book, 1954 Cloth Cover: 3,999 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe) + 326 ppm Arsenic!
Yes, vintage books can have lead! This 1954 Reprint of the 1926 children's book "Winnie The Pooh" tested positive for both Lead and Arsenic in the cover art.
When tested with an XRF instrument the book pictured had the following levels:
Lead (Pb): 3,999 +/- 94 parts per million (ppm) ...
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#LeadFree: Rae Dunn Stemless Wine Glasses, “Happiness” & “Believe”
These glasses tested negative for lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), arsenic (As) and Cadmium (Cd) when tested with an XRF instrument. They were newly purchased in 2018 at Marshall's. You can enter for a chance to win this exact set of glasses (pictured here) by participating in a little Facebook giveaway ...
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Three sets of vintage faux pearls. Which ones have Lead, and how much of it?
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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Vintage Faux Pearls, Off-White Heavy Plastic: 4,687 ppm Lead + 140 ppm Arsenic (90 ppm Lead is unsafe for kids!)
Click here to see some of the other "pearls" I have tested.
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 ...
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#Leaded: Off-White Vintage Faux Pearls, Glass
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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Vintage faux pearls: 125,700 ppm Lead. 90 ppm is unsafe. Please don’t let your children play with grandma’s faux pearls!
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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In nearly 22 years of parenting boys I hadn’t had this happen yet…
We rushed Charlie (my 9 year old son) to the emergency room last night, where he was admitted, examined and given an ultrasound so quickly I was truly surprised. The only time something similar to this happened (such a quick reaction by ER staff) was when Avi had viral meningitis as a baby (I ...
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#LeadFree: Metal Ice Cube
This metal ice cube was negative for lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic when tested with an XRF instrument.
For those interested, it had 152,800 +/- 1,400 ppm Chromium (Cr), and 2,896 +/- 493 ppm Copper (Cu). These seem like a good choice if they are your cup of long-island-iced-tea! (Metal ice ...
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#Phase4: Tort Claim Notice, Delivered May 11, 2018
Originally Posted: May 12, 2018
Updated: August 2018
On May 11, 2018, after the criminal charges that had been filed against me were dropped in full (because there was no evidence to support the allegations that led to my illegal arrest and, in fact, all the documentation that was available ...
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#SiteStats: Yesterday we passed 800,000 views!
Yesterday we passed 800,000 "all time" views on my site! Thanks everyone for reading and sharing my posts and spreading the word about lead in consumer goods and lead in the paint in homes!
If you have a few extra-bucks to spare to support this independent advocacy work that would be terrific ...
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Site Stats, Google Analytics – May 11, 2018
I guess sharing that you were illegally arrested for a crime you did not commit and that you were eventually exonerated through the official dismissal of all of the charges (nearly six months after the arrest) is good for your site stats! ;-)
Thank you everyone for sharing my story.
I am ...
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Official Notice of Dismissal: “The ends of justice will be best served by the dismissal of the within matter…”
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