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 ...
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Recent & Important Articles:
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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June 9, 2022 – I just got this email from Google Analytics; we had 639,700 readers here in May alone!
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
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Lead Safe Mama, LLC is not a nonprofit ...
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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 ...
Read More about 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).
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Read More about More news coverage of the Lead Safe Mama Corelle article that went viral in May: Click 2 Houston!
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, though, that ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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