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I made an announcement to my friends on Facebook that I wanted to use an XRF instrument to test some examples of the current hottest-toy-on-the-market - "fidget spinners" - for lead.
My friend Johna in Oklahoma was so lovely to send me a handful of them and I tested them as soon as my ...
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Recent & Important Articles:
You tested my soil, what do the results mean? How do I interpret the data? Is my soil safe?
Click here to read my post about soil testing.
You may hear "experts" say that all soil has some amount of lead in it today, in the post-industrial revolution modern era. This is simply not true.
I have personally tested countless soil samples from around the country that were ...
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Magellan’s Public Statement, May 26, 2017
Magellan's public statement from May 26, 2017:
Click the image of the letter below to see the full size pdf. ...
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Follow up on Magellan & Blood Lead Testing Instrumentation Concerns
Dear friends,
Below is my promised follow up on the current concern about Magellan blood lead analyzers (a concern that is again today being plastered all over the news as a result of this week's press releases from and involving the CDC and FDA)...
What I have to say (and what needs to be ...
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Soil Testing Using an XRF: Send Lead Safe Mama soil samples to have them tested for Lead.
Originally posted: May 25, 2017
Updated: January 1, 2024
PLEASE NOTE: We currently have a 6 to 8 week turn around for reporting soil sample test results (for soil samples sent in by readers) in most cases. We may have urgent testing available (for a higher fee, see below) but this is not always ...
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Public Statement From Magellan/ LeadCare2
I know the people at Magellan Diagnostics personally. They are a revolutionary company that has pioneered amazing technology for performing fast and efficient screening tests for lead (for humans and endangered wildlife!) in real-time (results in three minutes) in the field. Their technology is ...
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My Clorox Wipes Video or “How to clean up Lead dust.” – A short video by Lead Safe Mama, Tamara Rubin.
This post and video were originally published in November of 2014.
This is the technique we used to clean up Lead dust in our home after our children were poisoned back in 2005. We know for sure this works because we had dust wipe samples (tests to determine Lead-levels in dust) taken both BEFORE ...
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Amazon Affiliate Update, May 2017
This post is an update on how much I've earned as an Amazon affiliate - thanks to all of you!
Please keep clicking on my links before you start your shopping and Amazon will put a referral cookie in your browser so I will get a percentage of whatever you purchase, at no extra cost to you! ...
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Necklaces, Necklaces, Necklaces (1 in 3)
Originally Posted May 15, 2017
Hello friends!
Thank you so much to those of you who already bought a "1 in 3" lead poisoning prevention advocacy necklace!
Here's my original post about the necklaces from 2012 if you have not read it yet.
[Don't know what "1 in 3" stands for? Click ...
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Front Page of the Oregonian Today
May 12, 2017
Lead Lurks in PPS Schools.
By Bethany Barnes
Note: We (Tamara & Leonard Rubin) usually post articles here on my blog without much commentary, but we could not be silent about one point in this article from this weekend's Oregonian Newspaper. We have written the following in ...
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Pura Kiki Insulated Baby Bottle: the most egregious example of a “green-branded” bottle with unsafe levels of Lead.
Please read this entire post. Maybe by the end of it you will be as outraged as I have been by the actions of this company. - Thank you.
Original post title: Pura Kiki Follow Up #SurprisedNotSurprised.
To see more posts about the issues with this product and this company, click ...
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Mother’s Day 2017; Note from AJ (age 14)
Mother’s Day 2017, Note From Avi – Age 12-1/2
5/13/2017
This is Avi's "Mother's Day" note for me today! He wrote it in his yoga class yesterday morning! For those of you without a very young child [or a brain-injured 12-year-old] in your life, an English "translation" follows.
I share this with you for 1,000,001 reasons, but ...
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Publishers? Agents?
Hi All!
I'm creating this blog post more for me (as a reminder) than for you, but I thought some of you might appreciate the information I have found so far and others might be able to chime in with some new/ different / better ideas... so I am "putting it out there!"
As many of you may know, ...
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