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…
Are old magazines safe for children to play with? I tested this magazine in response to a question from a reader. The reader asked if it would be safe for their child to “cut up old National Geographic magazines” to use in art projects (collages). While I think it is unlikely that many children today…
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…
When tested with an XRF instrument the dish pictured here had the following readings: Test on white center of food surface of dish: Lead (Pb): 90 +/- 17 ppm Bismuth (Bi): 101 +/- 18 ppm Zinc (Zn):8,602 +/- 288 ppm Iron (Fe): 2,171 +/- 230 ppm Vanadium (V): 102 +/- 35 ppm Titanium (Ti): 509 +/- 71…
XRF reading on food surface of dish (cream speckled background area): 60-second reading Lead (Pb): 31 +/- 11 ppm Barium (Ba): 74 +/- 31 ppm Zirconium (Zr): 4,147 +/- 99 ppm Platinum (Pt): 189 +/- 74 ppm Zinc (Zn): 16,300 +/- 400 ppm Copper (Cu): 189 +/- 36 ppm Iron (Fe): 2,066 +/- 180 ppm…
I took this video to show how the lead painted siding is sitting underneath the new lead-free siding on my home. This video was shot in March of 2019 and we are now, finally (in November of 2020) taking care of this complicated problem at our home, removing rotted siding and replacing the rotted substructure…
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