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Lead In The News: August 23, 2017 #CALawsuit
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Lead In The News: August 23, 2017
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Lead In The News: August 24, 2017
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Stuff I have tested recently…
Here's an image I just put together of several things I have tested with an XRF (and collected!) in recent months! Please let me know if you have any questions. There's a second copy of the image below without the text bubbles so you can see the items more easily!
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Lead in Fishing Gear Sold at Walmart (Video)
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This is a little video (just 4 minutes, 48 seconds long) about lead in fishing gear.
If you are interested in supporting my independent consumer goods advocacy work please consider contributing via GoFundMe here, or Chip In via PayPal here. Thank you!
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FAPE
Here's Wikipedia's post on FAPE - click the image below to read the full post. If you have good links that will help other parents looking into FAPE considerations (especially for parents who have been denied appropriate free education for their children), please add the links as a comment ...
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My Son’s New School’s “Back-To-School” shopping list!
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Well... the most exciting news here is the first four words of the title of this blog post! I finally found a school for my youngest son Charlie! Charlie was lead poisoned in-utero (most likely as a result of my lead exposure in 2005 when my two middle sons were exposed) and has a "severe ADHD" ...
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Back to school shopping!
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Please consider starting your back-2-school shopping with my Amazon affiliate links. TIA! To start, grab yourself some #LeadFreePencils (we LOVE our Ticonderogas!)
(Here's our back-to-school shopping list!)
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XRFTesting; Pricing
Updated August 14, 2017
Hello All!
To date, participating in XRF testing has primarily helped only with the cost of the testing and costs related to making it possible for me to coordinate the testing (transportation, shipping, etc.).=
I am changing the model a little bit in order to make ...
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#AskTamara: Can I send you a box of my stuff to have it tested for Lead (so you can report the results on your site, too!)?
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Introduction (for those new to this website):
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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#AskTamara: Does my fidget spinner have unsafe levels of lead? 31 answers in 90 seconds! (video)
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#AskTamara
Question: Does my child's fidget spinner have unsafe levels of lead?
Answer: This video has 31 answers in just 90 seconds! [Scroll down to watch the video at the bottom of the post.]
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#LeadedTrumpetMouthpieces: A response to a band leader…
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Band leaders across the country are understandably upset about my findings of lead in trumpet mouthpieces.
The easy response for some is to not believe my findings and to try to discredit them (at least in their own minds) so that they feel that they do not need to alert their band members, ...
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July 2017 Amazon Affiliate Update
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This post is an update on how much I've earned as an Amazon affiliate - thanks to all of you!
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