Introduction: Tamara Rubin is a Federal award winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead poisoning prevention. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009, and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses XRF testing (a scientific…

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…

Link with how to contribute (scroll to bottom of post): https://tamararubin.com/2021/07/ways-to-support-the-work-of-lead-safe-mama-llc/ Link with what you can test with a home test kit: https://tamararubin.com/2017/11/where/ Link with latest on my legal battle: https://tamararubin.com/2021/09/the-states-attorneys-sent-my-attorney-64000-pages-of-discovery-for-my-federal-civil-rights-case-our-legal-system-is-a-chess-game-where-one-party-tries-to-destroy-the-other-financially-by-drownin/

Friday – September 3, 2021 Another quick update on Tamara’s Federal Civil Rights Case (suing the State of Oregon in Federal court for multiple counts of Civil Rights Violations against me – violations that attempted to destroy my advocacy work) Thanks for being here! I wrote an update about where things stand just a few…

FIVE YEARS! For those who are new here: If you haven’t yet read the full initial filing of the civil rights lawsuit that we filed against the State (in Federal Court, in August of 2019) you can read that at the link below. [It’s is quite an interesting and engaging read-through, actually!] Five years ago,…

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…

My son Avi drew these on his computer! ^^^ (more images below too!) What Avi’s Been Up To… since the start of the pandemic (and before!) For those new here…. Avi is my third son (third out of four) and is 16-1/2 years old at the moment. He has a diagnosed brain injury from being…

Lobster Salad is NOT Ice Cream (but I like both of them!) In response to the Australian KidSpot article about my work this month… …and the more then 1,300 comments on their related Facebook post Here’s a link to the Facebook post in question, please read the comments – for fun! (& comment too if…

Introduction: Tamara Rubin is a Federal award winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead poisoning prevention. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009, and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses XRF testing (a scientific…

I’m “going under the knife” at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow (Friday – 8/6/21!) Thoughts and prayers are lovely! BUT what I would really love is a bunch of contributions in support of the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC too! Summers are already predictably hard (in terms of not being able to keep up with expenses…