Originally published: October 14, 2017
Updated: June 26, 2020 - Friday
This little green glass ice-cream dish / custard cup tested NEGATIVE for Lead (Pb) when tested with a high-precision XRF instrument testing in "consumer goods" mode. This is actually one of the items I bought for my book ...
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Recent & Important Articles:
Jewelry: Lady Bug Charm, Enamel
Lady bug charm: 17,100 parts per million (ppm) lead.
The amount of lead that is considered toxic in an item intended for children is anything 90 parts per million lead or higher. Most vintage enamel pieces are very high lead, usually closer to 400,000 ppm lead! With an item as small as this one - ...
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Vintage blue speckled enamelware camping spoon: 412 ppm Lead in the food-surface enamel.
Post Published: October 14, 2017
Vintage enamelware camping spoon
412 parts per million (ppm) lead.
As tested with an XRF instrument.
How much Lead is too much Lead?
The amount of lead that is considered unsafe in the coating (paint, glaze, etc.) of an item intended for children is 90 ppm ...
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Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow Glass Baby Bottle: Lead-free, but trace Cadmium found in the glass of the bottle & nipple
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 ...
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Luigi Bormioli Tumbler, c. 2017: Lead-Free Clear Glass
Clear glass
#LeadFree
Non-Detect for Lead with an XRF instrument
Amazon Affiliate link for this product: http://amzn.to/2vS2zbl
New (not vintage)
Luigi Bormioli (not marked.)
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Target Home “ramekin”, White Ceramic
Target Home ramekin
White ceramic
Similar to the product on this Amazon Affiliate link: http://amzn.to/2er4WvC
Tested with an XRF
38 +/- 24 ppm lead
#LowLead
#LeadSafe
Safe by all standards
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Ball Brand Baby Food Jar with Plastic Lid
Small Ball Jar with plastic lid
#LeadFree
Tested "non-detect" for lead using an XRF instrument
Amazon Affiliate Link: http://amzn.to/2vRng7q
All components tested.
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2017 Oxo Glass Cube, Baby Food Storage: Lead and Cadmium Free in all components.
These are so cool! I really love the glass food storage with the snap lids with silicone sealing bands. I think they are a terrific product type (as long as the writing on the exterior of the jar is not painted with Lead paint... as is the case with these!) I wish they had these when my kiddos were ...
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We got the letter from the IRS this week!
This post is a follow up to the recent posts sharing about my story about what has happened to my advocacy over the past 18 months.Consistent with what I have known and said from the start, and as summarized in my attorney's letter, earlier this week I received the confirmation letter below ...
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September 2017 Stats
Not surprising... visits to my site in September were on the "low" side! (only 28,674 unique hits - no where near the 70,000+ from the #FidgetSpinner chaos of June! :-) ...
This is a really good illustration of how the work and focus required for my current situation (read more about that here) ...
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Avi’s New Year’s Resolutions, #2017 / #5778
My son Avi is 12-1/2 years old (he'll be 13 in January actually), he just started 7th grade.
He's the boy in blue at the middle of this picture taken earlier this month! You can click the image to see it full size if you like!
Avi was acutely lead poisoned when he was just 7 months ...
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Harvard study challenges assumptions on ‘natural’ Lead levels
This is one of the most important articles I have read in quite some time.
It is long but worth the read! Click the image below to read the full article.
This article was originally published on May 30, 2017. ...
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AJ update. (AJ is my 15 year old son who was lead poisoned when he was about 3 years old.)
Originally posted September 23, 2017
A.J. turned 15 in July.
He is absolutely brilliant (his last measured I.Q. - 5 years ago at age 9 - was 124) — in spite of his acute lead poisoning as a toddler.
His ongoing symptoms from having been lead poisoned as a child include dyslexia, severe ADHD ...
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“The Kenton Lead Blob” ( Video ) Filmed in 2016
For more information about this video and project, click here.
This is a short (10-minute) video about lead contamination in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The thing I personally like best about this video is how it captures the level of activity at my old office...all the drop-ins, the team ...
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