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How much Lead can you buy for $6.99 at Hobby Lobby? Ceramic red rose cabinet knob / drawer pull: 1,387 ppm Lead, 11 ppm Cadmium.

New 10 Minutes With Tamara video: Lead hazards in MY home! WTH!

US-ION 7.5 inch Iron Skillet by SolidTeknics: 99.54% Iron when tested with an XRF instrument. Click to read full details.

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?)

Geometric small white ceramic bowl, no maker’s mark: 36 ppm Lead, safe by all standards.

Small square white ceramic dish, no maker’s mark: Lead-free, Mercury Free, Arsenic-free, Cadmium-free.

Square white ceramic bowl, no maker’s mark: 61 ppm Lead, safe by all standards.

Microsafe by Lenox, Continental Dining Gold: Lead-free on the food surface and logo.

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).

Video #2 of 3 from Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-exposed Child

Video #3 of 3 from Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-Exposed Child

10 Minutes with Tamara: a video series introduction and overview

My follow-up responses to Strafford Organic Creamery

Response from Strafford Organic Creamery about my findings of Lead paint on their bottles

Smiling Hill Farm Dairy (Maine) glass milk bottle by StanPac: Painted with green & black Lead paint (33,600 ppm Lead, 90 is unsafe).

China brands associated with “quality” aren’t necessarily safe. 2001 Lenox Butterfly Meadow pattern china: 63,700 ppm Lead.

Strafford Vermont Organic Creamery glass milk bottle by StanPac: Painted with red Lead paint (18,200 ppm Lead, 90 is unsafe)

“Made For Retail” Black Wood Tree (Made In China, $3): Lead-free, Mercury Free & Arsenic Free

December closed out 2020 in 6th place for #BestMonthEver here on the Lead Safe Mama site, thanks everyone!

Tamara’s Christmas Eve Interview w/ Jon Fishman, Phish Drummer & Parent of a Lead-Exposed Child

I wrote this on November 30, 2019… on the very real impacts of Lead Poisoning (“Stop worrying about shit, just do something!”)

New #TenMinutesWithTamara video! Testing for Lead in vinyl blinds in a newer construction home (c. 1980-2000).

For those of you who have been following the drama with our house, here’s a pic from today…with the new roof!

The Lead Safe Mama website just passed 3,000,000 page views for the second year in a row! Thank you!