New 10 Minutes With Tamara video: Lead hazards in MY home! WTH!
Video at my house. Filmed January 5, 2021 Our home was built in 1905. With the first big rain this winter we had a roof leak (a couple of months ago) that ended up leaving us needing to do a full roof replacement and gut the kitchen to clean up the mold. We…
US-ION 7.5 inch Iron Skillet by SolidTeknics: 99.54% Iron when tested with an XRF instrument. Click to read full details.
Published: January 15, 2021 Introduction to Tamara Rubin (for those new to this website!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work…
I broke my leg (well, broke my foot OFF my leg) in Maine… Read the saga here. (Now I need some help. Can you help me get home?)
January 14, 2021 — Thursday Last week seems like 1,000,000 years ago! Hey friends! As you may have heard (I have been sharing all of this on Facebook, but not yet here on my website!) the following chain of events happened: My husband flew home (CoViD-19 carefully) to Oregon, but wasn’t 100% confident he could…
Geometric small white ceramic bowl, no maker’s mark: 36 ppm Lead, safe by all standards.
60-second test – food surface Lead (Pb): 36 +/- 10 ppm Cadmium (Cd): 9 +/- 4 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 116 +/- 14 ppm Zinc (Zn): 6,619 +/- 179 ppm Iron (Fe): 1,418 +/- 149 ppm Titanium (Ti): 180 +/- 75 ppm This dish had no maker’s mark or other detail beyond what can be seen…
Small square white ceramic dish, no maker’s mark: Lead-free, Mercury Free, Arsenic-free, Cadmium-free.
60-second test – food surface Barium (Ba): 913 +/- 38 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 73 +/- 11 ppm Zinc (Zn): 2,553 +/- 93 ppm Iron (Fe): 660 +/- 127 ppm Vanadium (V): 4,079 +/- 317 ppm Titanium (Ti): 8,493 +/- 548 ppm This dish had no maker’s mark or other detail beyond what can be seen…
Square white ceramic bowl, no maker’s mark: 61 ppm Lead, safe by all standards.
60-second test – food surface Lead (Pb): 61 +/- 13 ppm Barium (Ba): 116 +/- 29 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 106 +/- 17 ppm Platinum (Pt): 221 +/- 79 ppm Zinc (Zn): 21,000 +/- 500 ppm Iron (Fe): 830 +/- 126 ppm Vanadium (V): 262 +/- 96 ppm Titanium (Ti): 441 +/- 139 ppm This dish…
Microsafe by Lenox, Continental Dining Gold: Lead-free on the food surface and logo.
60-second test – food surface – white area Barium (Ba): 363 +/- 34 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 66 +/- 13 ppm Zinc (Zn): 5,581 +/- 182 ppm Copper (Cu): 81 +/- 35 ppm Iron (Fe): 1,870 +/- 194 ppm Vanadium (V): 1,946 +/- 223 ppm Titanium (Ti): 3,118 +/- 335 ppm Painted areas (including golden trim…
1983 Made in England Royal Worcester Fine Bone China “Royal Garden Elgar”: 59,200 ppm Lead on the food surface (90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids).
1983 Made in England Royal Worcester Fine Bone China “Royal Garden Elgar” 60-second test – food surface – white area Lead (Pb): 59,200 +/- 1,900 ppm Barium (Ba): 125 +/- 61 ppm Zinc (Zn): 209 +/- 36 ppm Iron (Fe): 971 +/- 177 ppm Painted areas (including golden trim and pink and white roses) tested…
Video #2 of 3 from Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-exposed Child
The Latest #TenMinutesWithTamara interview! Watch here or click through to the Lead Safe Mama YouTube channel. On Christmas Eve, I had a great video chat with Jon Fishman (drummer for the band Phish) about “all things Lead” (including discussing his experience with his child’s Lead exposure). The video below is the second of three “Ten…
Video #3 of 3 from Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-Exposed Child
The Latest #TenMinutesWithTamara interview! Watch here or click through to the Lead Safe Mama YouTube channel. On Christmas Eve, I had a great video chat with Jon Fishman (drummer for the band Phish) about “all things Lead” (including discussing his experience with his child’s Lead exposure). The video below is the third of three “Ten…
10 Minutes with Tamara: a video series introduction and overview
10 Minutes With Tamara, a video series Early in the CoViD-19 pandemic (April 2020) I conceived of the idea for this video series, a collection of interviews with friends from around the globe — friends whose lives have been directly (or tangentially) impacted by childhood Lead exposure. I was inspired by the ease and simplicity of…
My follow-up responses to Strafford Organic Creamery
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…
Response from Strafford Organic Creamery about my findings of Lead paint on their bottles
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…
Smiling Hill Farm Dairy (Maine) glass milk bottle by StanPac: Painted with green & black Lead paint (33,600 ppm Lead, 90 is unsafe).
Lead paint on modern reusable milk bottles is a common problem. I have several other posts about this subject and I encourage you to read those (as they each have more details on the subject) for some background on the issue start by clicking on this link for additional background information.Not only did the paint on this…
China brands associated with “quality” aren’t necessarily safe. 2001 Lenox Butterfly Meadow pattern china: 63,700 ppm Lead.
Introduction to Tamara Rubin (for those new to this website!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S….
Strafford Vermont Organic Creamery glass milk bottle by StanPac: Painted with red Lead paint (18,200 ppm Lead, 90 is unsafe)
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…
“Made For Retail” Black Wood Tree (Made In China, $3): Lead-free, Mercury Free & Arsenic Free
Made For Retail Black Wood Tree 2020 Holiday Season Toy / Decor When I first got this toy (it’s like a toy tree for a child’s wooden train set) I thought it was plastic but the label on it says it is wood, so we’ll go with heavily finished wood (unless I hear otherwise!) This…
December closed out 2020 in 6th place for #BestMonthEver here on the Lead Safe Mama site, thanks everyone!
End-of-Month Stats for December 2020 & EOY Stats for 2020, too! December 2020 closed out the year in 6th place for #BestMonthEver on the Lead Safe Mama website, with over 272,730 unique page views in the month! Thanks, everyone, for being here. Here are some of the other amazing highlights for the year: 3,034,670: There were…
Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-Exposed Child
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 sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a…
I wrote this on November 30, 2019… on the very real impacts of Lead Poisoning (“Stop worrying about shit, just do something!”)
Originally Posted on Facebook – November 30, 2019 Updates in Blue LISTEN. I am in a bad mood today. You NEED to get how serious Lead is and how important prenatal and preconception testing is. Today my 11 year old (poisoned in utero) BUSTED OUR FRONT DOOR! And it is COLD outside and now there…
New #TenMinutesWithTamara video! Testing for Lead in vinyl blinds in a newer construction home (c. 1980-2000).
In this new ten minute video I show you how you can test your vinyl blinds for Lead yourself and what you need to do to clean up the mess (and get rid of the hazard) if you find Lead in your vinyl blinds! Please let me know if you have any questions. Here’s my…
For those of you who have been following the drama with our house, here’s a pic from today…with the new roof!
The roof is done! Now we just need to deal with the gutted kitchen! Scroll down… three pictures + a video of our kitchen today! Picture my husband took today: Monday – December 28, 2020 This is what the kitchen looked like (pretty much!) before the leak in the roof! This is what the kitchen looks…
The Lead Safe Mama website just passed 3,000,000 page views for the second year in a row! Thank you!
December 29, 2020 Update – Tuesday
How old are your child’s toys? Mega Bloks Large Yellow Building Block (c. 1990-2007?): 5,402 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + 88 ppm Mercury
Introduction to Tamara Rubin (for those new to this website!) Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S….