Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s 2023 Goals!
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 testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
Tamara, how were your kids poisoned?
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 testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
A link to my film.
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 were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC…
EOY Request for support of the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC – 12/31/22 update
Saturday – December 31, 2022 I posted this update on social media this morning and since then there have been $400 in contributions in support of this request! Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far! That means this loan is just $1,974.65 away from being paid off! Here’s what I posted earlier: Hey…
Can you share an article today to help us reach our readership goal for the month?
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 were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe…
Top 20 Articles of 2022 on LeadSafeMama.com (as of 12/31/2022)
December 31, 2022 – Saturday Here’s a quick link to get you to the Top TEN Lead Safe Mama articles of 2022. Hello friends! Happy New Year! Please celebrate safely tonight. We have disabled kiddos (Lead poisoned as babies) so I expect we will go for a walk this afternoon, get some sparkling cider,…
Did you get a gift of spending money this holiday season? Here’s something you might want to buy for yourself!
Friday – December 30, 2022 I published this on my social media pages last night but thought I would share it here too! Did you get some spending cash from Santa? Do you still have to buy a special something just for you? Do you want to support a woman-owned small business – run by…
Check the bottom of your reusable glass milk bottle… If it says StanPac, chances are it is painted with high-Lead paint.
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 testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
Hershey sued over chocolate containing high levels of Lead & Cadmium!
December 29, 2022 – Thursday Link to article is below (click on the image). “NEW YORK, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Hershey Co (HSY.N) has been sued by a consumer who accused the company of selling dark chocolate that contains harmful levels of lead and cadmium.”
Scene about Lead in chocolate & wine (filmed in February of 2012) from MisLEAD:America’s Secret Epidemic (a documentary.)
December 29, 2022 – Thursday Below is the final scene of the documentary feature film that I directed and produced, MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic about the epidemic of Lead poisoning in America today. This scene is about Lead in Chocolate (& Wine!). The scene was filmed in Boston, Mass in February of 2012 (more than…
One last thing…
Thursday – December 29, 2022 If Y’all could do just ONE thing to support my advocacy work before the end of the year (so in the next three days – preferably today) please click through to the home page of Lead Safe Mama dot com (type it in to your browser so that it isn’t…
Deconstructing KitchenAid’s greenwashed response to findings of Lead in their stand mixer attachments
This is an ad-free article. To make a contribution to help us keep our most widely-read articles ad-free, click here. Thank you. 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…
Here’s a template for messaging or calling KitchenAid and demanding Lead-free replacement stand mixer attachments
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). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…
A point-by-point response to KitchenAid’s public statements regarding Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s findings of Lead contamination in their standard mixer attachments
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). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…
Tips for Navigating This Website
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 testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
Cognitive Dissonance: Several Lead-contaminated products have received “#1” ratings from EWG
While the products listed below may not be “EWG Verified” products, many are just below that in their rating scale with a “#1” score. Consumers take EWG’s above statements to heart and (predictably, given human nature) are likely to associate / extrapolate the sentiment of the “EWG Verified” language to *other* highly-rated EWG products (which unfortunately includes…
Demand EWG remove Lead-contaminated products from their site (here’s a letter template you can use)!
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). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific…
A request for YOUR help TODAY (TIA)
December 23, 2022 – Friday A request for YOUR help TODAY Do you want to support this work in a simple and free way? Here’s how (& why) to do that this week! Here’s the “why now“: Lead Safe Mama, LLC relies on advertising income (on our website) to cover a significant portion of the cost…
All the links below go with my interview from Wednesday (12/21/22) with @Ecoshaker on Instagram!
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 were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama,…
Check out my Instagram Live chat (12/21/22) with @ecoshaker (we cover a lot of ground!)
December 22, 2022 — Thursday Yesterday I had a super fun Instagram Live conversation with @ecoshaker. Please click the image to watch the whole interview/ conversation. We covered a lot of ground (it’s an hour and 50 minutes long!) but if you are a supporter of this work and want to get to know…
My informational graphic responding to the chocolate manufacturers’ misinformation campaign — the Lead-in-chocolate controversy
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 testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
KitchenAid’s latest (Greenwashed) corporate response to the Lead Safe Mama findings of Lead in their attachments (stand by for my detailed response)
Thursday – December 22, 2022 The corporate greenwashing and deflection of responsibility has been coming fast and furious today! Below is KitchenAid’s response that was sent to several concerned Lead Safe Mama readers today. I will post my full response this asap.
The COMPLETE (ridiculous, greenwashed) statement published by HU on their website today (12/22/22). Stand by for my full response.
I copied and pasted this (full text below) from HU’s website. Direct link here. To Our Community December 22, 2022 An Important Message From The Hu Team To our cherished Hu Community, In the past few days, we’ve received messages from a number of you following a recent news story referencing Hu dark chocolate. We’ve…
This is some of what I did today: my current fight with my son’s school (Portland State University)
December 21, 2022 – Wednesday Today I wrote this letter to my son’s school (PSU) because they are unable to award him the full tuition scholarship that he otherwise would qualify for – due to bureaucratic restrictions in their scholarship policy. Their policy (as it stands) arbitrarily has conditions which make it impossible for Avi to qualify for their full…