11 years ago today I was presented with my first award from the Federal government… & this is where things stand today (this week!)
Thanks to “Facebook Memories” I got a reminder about this post from 11 years ago today. June 22, 2022 – Wednesday 11 years ago this week (11 years ago today) I won my first award from the Federal Government for my childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advocacy work (my first award ever for this work). No…
Letter from Primal Life Organics Attorney in text form
Wednesday – June 22, 2022 We have at least one Lead Safe Mama regular reader who uses a text to speech software (like my son uses!) to assist with reading documents. As a result, whenever possible I try to include the text of documents that I share here in readable text format (in addition to…
Dutch Oral Use Clay Research Study: Lead, Mercury, Arsenic & Cadmium in traditional healing clays (July of 2013, NIH: National Library of Medicine)
June 21, 2022 – Tuesday Key points For lead, the use of 34 of the 36 traditional clays and two of the 27 health clays would result in intake levels exceeding the toxicological limit by up to 20-fold. Use of 15 of the 35 traditional clays and 11 of the 27 health clays would result…
Article from 2016 discussing unsafe levels of Lead found in bentonite / detox clay; FDA warning.
Click the image below to read the article.
Bentonite Clay Research Study: Lead from topically applied Bentonite clay concentrates in livers and kidneys of mice studied (March 2020, NIH: National Library of Medicine)
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…
As anticipated, Primal Life Organic’s legal team sent me a “cease and desist” letter. Here’s their letter and my response.
Monday – June 20, 2022, 10:26 p.m. If you click the image of the cover email (below) you can see the full Cease and Desist letter from this law firm (which I haven’t actually read yet.) – Have fun checking that out. If you have words you want to share with this law firm in…
The Nurse who owns PrimalLife sent me an email threatening legal action, in which she demonstrated a clear misunderstanding of math and science.
June 20, 2022 — Monday — Well… this has been an exciting day! This morning I woke up to a flurry of activity around the PrimalLife Dirty Mouth tooth paste article I published last night (in the wee hours today, actually — 6/20/22)! Many of my readers were in touch, with various communications they…
Primal Life Dirty Mouth Toothpowder: Positive for 7,000 ppb Lead and 18,000 ppb Cadmium (Cadmium causes cancer and is considered toxic when ingested) at levels in the 100 ppb range & up
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. This is the first of several articles we have published related to this product. Here’s a full list: An article published on June 19, 2022. Published June 20, 2022 — Email from…
Tabor Place claims the paint on their bottles / sippy cups is Lead-free & Cadmium-free. This is simply not true. Yet ANOTHER Lead-painted baby bottle!
First a bunch of images to start! My youngest son Charlie holding one of the bottles (wearing gloves to be safe!) We took this picture (above) in response to this sticker on the box (since Charlie is my “little one”) So that we could post the picture online and tag Tabor Place to make sure they…
Kids with a history of Lead exposure can have an increased risk of food allergies: Our story (my sons are highly allergic to food dye)
Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (But I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while now!) First, please take a look at the photos below. This is what happened to my son (who was 16 years old at the time these photos were taken) after he had ONE SIP of his friend’s light pink bubble…
June 14, 2022: It’s not really important that June of 2022 is now the 13th #BestMonthEver… but here’s why it is important… 😉
Tuesday – June 14, 2022 The main reason this is important is because it is only the 14th day of June! [And today is not even over yet!] Given there are 16.5 days left in June, and page views here have leveled out at about 10,000 views each day (just over), we can easily anticipate another…
Affiliate link for the day: Scissors
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)…
Lead Safe Mama, LLC – Financial Update
Lead Safe Mama, LLC focuses on science-based, independent (without government or corporate influence) environmental advocacy with an emphasis on healthy housing, childhood Lead-poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety. Learn more at LeadSafeMama.com – Lead Safe Mama, LLC is not a nonprofit organization (instead we are a woman-owned small business with a unique community-collaborative business model),…
xtrema 1.25 quart Versa Pot ceramic cookware, “Handcrafted In China”: 16,400 ppm Lead (90 & up is unsafe for kids) & 766 ppm Cadmium (a carcinogen).
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…
Tomorrow (June 8, 2022): All The Milestones!
Tomorrow – Wednesday, June 8th…. ….June of 2022 will become the #BestJuneEver at LeadSafeMama.com…passing 187,000 page views for the month [the previous #BestJuneEver was June of 2019 with 186,506 page views for the full month] — even though we are just 8 days in! We will also pass 14,000,000 all-time page views tomorrow for the…
New York City (Astoria) Community Event with FREE XRF testing: THIS SATURDAY (June 11, 2022) 10 am – 4 pm!
Lead Safe Mama, LLC will have a booth at Astoria Park on Saturday, June 11, 2022 in conjunction with the NYC Department of Sanitation Safe Disposal Event happening that day. Here is the information for the Safe Disposal Event: Click this link for the event details / to register for the Safe Disposal event. Continue…
Full Corelle “official” response to the Lead Safe Mama article on Corelle’s original statement about Lead in their pre-2005 dishware.
June 5, 2022 – Sunday Since the *new* (May of 2022) drama and flurry of activity started around the Lead Safe Mama, LLC work exposing the presence of toxic heavy metals (Lead, Cadmium and Arsenic specifically) in the painted decorations on vintage (and even on newer) Corelle dishware, Corelle drafted and issued a public statement…
More news coverage of the Lead Safe Mama Corelle article that went viral in May: Click 2 Houston!
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…
Apparently the fact that one of my articles is viral is “Newsworthy!” Yay! #GoTeam! Thank you to WCNC Charlotte!
Thursday – June 2, 2022 One of my readers spotted this on their local T.V. news today! If you have seen something similar, please do share it with me. I think it’s a wee bit amusing that news stations are covering this, but none have contacted me directly for a comment. I do love it,…
Final Numbers for May of 2022 — the #BestMonthEver at LeadSafeMama.com!
June 2, 2022 – Thursday Thank you friends for making May 2022 the #BestMonthEver at LeadSafeMama.com! We had 1,666,470 page views in a single month – which is absolutely amazing (if only this were sustainable – lol… perhaps it is!?!) 3 of our top ten months of all time have been in 2022! We had…
Lead-free food storage (Lead Safe Mama affiliate link for today!)
June 2, 2022 – Thursday For lead-free food storage I like these glass cube type storage containers (aflink) https://amzn.to/3NfArHx. I have tested this brand specifically and found them to be Lead and Cadmium free in all components (although I don’t generally recommend products from this brand across the board.) I like the square shaped ones…
Unlike the glass, plastic Lansinoh bottles are Lead-free — Click through for full XRF test results (trace Cadmium found in the silicone nipples)
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)…
I shared this graphic yesterday on social media. May of 2022 is the new #BestMonthEver here at LeadSafeMama.com!
Sunday – May 30, 2022 Since these numbers keep going up, I will update this graphic one more time with final numbers for May of 2022 – but I wanted to make sure to share this here in the meantime! Thank you for your ongoing support of this work, it makes a difference. Please scroll…