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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). ...
Read More about A Lead Safe Mama Facebook post is going viral right now! It has already reached 407,000+ people, been shared 2,600+ times and has over 1,200 comments! (As of 5:30 p.m. EST Tuesday 3/22/22)
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Who Won? Who Won?! [Click through and scroll down to see who won!]
March 22, 2022 - Tuesday
Who won the prize of a set of two #LeadFree pans from @Solidteknics as part of our #GiveAway celebrating that @LeadSafeMama passed 10,000 Instagram followers?!
Stand by - I will be announcing the winners ASAP! In the meantime for the rest of today I am putting my ...
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Today (Sunday, 3/20/2022) LeadSafeMama.com passed 11,500,000 unique all-time page views! Thank you for supporting this work!
March 20, 2022 - Sunday
In addition to reaching our goal of 10,000 @LeadSafeMama Instagram followers today, LeadSafeMama.com / TamaraRubin.com (this website!) passed 11,500,000 unique all-time page views early this morning too!
More stats for today:
We've had over 2,500,000 page views ...
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Today (Sunday, 3/20/2022) @LeadSafeMama passed 10,000 followers on Instagram! Thank you!
March 20, 2022 - Sunday
About a year ago I set a goal for @LeadSafeMama to reach 10,000 followers on Instagram. In support of this goal both @Solidteknics and @Naturepedic donated product for #GiveAways to encourage our engagement on Instagram, and I posted as often as I could - with new test ...
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Lead Safe Mama, LLC Federal EIN paperwork (for the record!) :-)
Published: March 14, 2022 - Monday
I frequently need to dig around in my paperwork for this important piece of information and I just realized that I had not yet published it on the website (which makes it easier for me to find and available for anyone else who needs it.) If you click on the image ...
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March 14, 2022 Letter to Arion Press in San Francisco (a company likely Lead poisoning their employees, interns and visitors to their factory.)
March 14, 2022 - Monday
In response to re-sharing my piece (yesterday) about the concern for high Lead levels in vintage print trays (that many families are unfortunately using to display curios and small toys in their children's rooms (link here), last night a friend shared this video with me ...
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After I broke my (foot off of my) leg my Physical Therapist asked me what my goal was. I responded “To ride my bike across the United States.” I wasn’t kidding.
After I broke my leg I told my Physical Therapist that my goal is to ride my bike across the country. He said... let's just start with riding your bike a mile. This is the story of why I won't settle for that (and why the cross country ride is still my goal!)
Saturday - March 12, 2022
I ...
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Charlie and the Cotton Candy Machine: an unexpected form of therapy, education, and socialization!
Published: March 10, 2022 - Thursday
I'm going to start this post with all of the things we bought to create this opportunity for Charlie, and I will follow up with the "story" about how this seemingly small (and unlikely) thing has made a huge difference in Charlie's life!
Here's everything ...
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Lindt-Stymeist brand ceramics brown glazed bowl in “Acorn” color, Made in Japan: 39 ppm Lead & 8 ppm Cadmium. Safe by all standards.
Published: March 10, 2022
This bowl is truly lovely to touch and hold. There is a really interesting unique quality of the glaze - and I don't say that very often. The Lead and Cadmium levels are safe by all standards, and this is a very high-fire piece, so I do not have concern for leaching, given ...
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“Belt Stripe Tape” sold by The Martial Arts Supermarket in 2022…the package is clearly marked “WARNING: Cancer” — yet it is sold for teachers to use to mark kids’ belts.
Published: March 7, 2022 - Monday
Last month (just about a week ago actually!), after I published the post discussing the concern for industrial-quality (commercial-grade) electrical tape being used to mark children's martial arts belts (link here), I heard back from so many parents with more ...
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XRF test results for Parent’s Choice glass bottle with gray markings: 17 ppm Lead & 9 ppm Cadmium (safe by all standards)
XRF test results for the Parent's Choice glass bottle with gray exterior painted markings - pictured.
Published: March 7, 2022
Reading #1) clear glass of bottle
60-second test (all tests repeated multiple times to confirm test results)
Lead (Pb): 12 +/- 3 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): 5 +/- 2 ppm ...
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Dynasty Fine China (Made in China): 2,036 ppm Lead on the food surface & 9,807 ppm Lead on the back logo mark.
XRF test results for the Dynasty Fine China (Made in China) dish pictured
Reading #1) 60-second reading on the white center of the dish (food surface)
Lead (Pb): 47 +/- 4 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
Mercury (Hg): non-detect
Arsenic (As): non-detect
Bromine (Br): non-detect ...
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2005 Pickard (Made in U.S.A.) Katarina pattern hand decorated dish: 75,000 ppm Lead on the food surface in the center of the dish (90 ppm & up is unsafe for kids).
XRF test results for the Pickard Katarina pattern dish pictured here.
Note: I would NOT consider these dishes to be safe for food use.
Reading #1) White center of food surface of dish
60-second reading
Lead (Pb): 75,000 +/- 800 ppm
Cadmium (Cd): non-detect
Mercury (Hg): ...
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Sterling silver wedding band style ring: 938,700 ppm Silver & 52,000 ppm Copper (+ Tin, Vanadium & Barium.)
XRF test results for the ring pictured.
This is a really good example of typical total metals content for 925-marked modern Sterling Silver. The two main ingredients in modern Sterling are Silver [usually at least 925,000 ppm — hence the "925" mark, which translates to 92.5% of the total make ...
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