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Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF ...
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#Leaded: Vintage 1940s Nancy Ann Storybook Bride Doll
This vintage (1940s) Nancy Ann Storybook doll bride has a painted face that is 172,600 +/- 10,000 ppm lead. The amount of lead that is considered toxic/unsafe in an item made for children today is 90 ppm lead and higher.
In general you should keep vintage dolls (both plastic and ceramic) away ...
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Vintage Fisher Price Merry_Go_Round Toy: 4,897 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe) + 391 ppm Arsenic. Click to learn more.
Fisher price merry-go-round-toy
When tested with an XRF instrument, this vintage green and yellow plastic Fisher Price playground merry-go-round toy tested positive for Lead and Arsenic. As with most of these vintage plastic toys the variations of toxic heavy metals found in each component of the ...
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#LeadFree: Vintage 1969 Fisher Price Mini Bus
This little 1969 Vintage Fisher Price "Mini Bus" was non-detect (negative) for lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd). The little people were positive for these elements however. Click here to read the post and see readings for each of the little people!
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#Leaded: Vintage Fisher Price Cowboy With White Hat
This little vintage Fisher Price plastic cowboy with a green body and white hat tested positive for lead and arsenic. His green body was 3,377 +/- 71 ppm lead and 114 +/- 43 ppm arsenic.
Lead is considered unsafe for children at levels of 90 ppm and higher (by modern standards.)
Tested with an ...
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#Leaded: Vintage Plastic Fisher Price Lady With Blue Dress & Yellow Hair
This little vintage Fisher Price lady is positive for lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic. Her yellow hair came in at 4,723 +/- 97 ppm lead, 69 +/-13 ppm cadmium and 166 +/- 54 ppm arsenic. Her face was positive for 472 +/- 23 ppm lead, 118 +/- 13 ppm cadmium and 13 +/- 7 mercury. Her blue plastic ...
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#Cadmium: Vintage Fisher Price Lady with White Hair
This little vintage Fisher Price plastic lady with a yellow dress and white hair tested negative for lead but positive for cadmium and mercury in her face. The cadmium reading is 98 +/- 13 ppm and the mercury reading was 21 +/- 7 ppm.
Cadmium is considered unsafe for children at levels of 40 ppm ...
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#Leaded: Vintage Fisher Price Little People Man With Yellow Hat
This vintage Fisher Price man tested positive for lead, cadmium and arsenic. His Blue plastic body was positive for lead at 106 +/- 11 ppm. His yellow hat is positive for lead at 3,213 +/- 71 ppm, cadmium at 23 +/- 12 ppm, and arsenic at 186 +/- 43 ppm. The configuration of the toy made it not ...
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#Leaded: Vintage Fisher Price Little People
These vintage little people are positive for lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd.) Click on each of the links below to see the readings for the specific little person.
Plastic lady with blue dress & yellow hair.
Plastic boy in orange.
Man with yellow hat.
Plastic lady with ...
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#Leaded: Green Bodum French Press
This was super disappointing!
5,562 ppm lead & 69 ppm cadmium.
This is the reading on the white writing (including the logo) which is on the outside of the glass canister. This writing often wears off with washing and normal use on similar products painted in a similar fashion (Green Sprouts ...
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#LeadFree: Melissa & Doug Latches Activity Board (Link)
I have tested this "Latches Board" by Melissa & Doug with an XRF instrument and found all components to be lead-free! This is a great example of how brass does not have to contain lead (even though most brass does!) This toy is a terrific choice for your little ones looking to explore ...
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#AskTamara: Are Pokeman cards lead-safe?
Question: Are Pokemon cards lead-safe?
Answer: Hell ya! [#ImAPokemonFan!]
We happen to have several thousand Pokemon cards in our home. Luckily most were given to us, either via "Freecycle" or friends and family passing along their collections, so I haven't had to buy many of these for ...
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#AskTamara: What coffee maker do you use?
I get this question A LOT!
"Tamara, what coffee maker do you use?"
A: Mostly we use a French press style coffee maker.
However I do want to clarify that I have found lead in several French presses. Specifically (as with many measuring cups and other glass items with logos or marked ...
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