Stuff With Lead

 

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 sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).

  • Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
  • Since 2009, Tamara has been conducting XRF testing (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
  • Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for five product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
  • Recent notable press… There has been too much to mention already in 2024! Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!

What has Lead in it?
Why is Lead so prevalent in our environment?

Originally Published: August 18, 2013
Updated: February 24, 2024

While the most pressing concerns (the sources of Lead most likely to poison a child) are Lead in house-dust (from deteriorating paint, renovation, and repainting projects), and Lead in soil (from legacy Leaded gasoline use as well as contamination from construction, renovation, and repainting projects), parents have many other concerns and questions about potential sources of Lead exposure for their children.

Below are links to some specific articles (as well as links to whole article categories) discussing the concern for Lead (and other toxicants like Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, and Antimony) in the following topic areas:

Food-Contact Consumer Goods

Food Related Topics

Detailed Discussions on Specific Substances (not food)

Toy Related Topics

Non-Food-Realted Topics

This page is just a quick overview to use as a starting point for exploring this website. You may also want to check out the following links which are overviews with many other categories of links:

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Tamara Rubin
Owner — Lead Safe Mama, LLC
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