Baby Food

Lead Safe Mama’s Safer Choices (Lead-Free Choices!): Baby Food Storage

Published: March 11, 2023 — Saturday In response to the findings of high-Lead paint on some of the WeeSprout baby food storage jars with painted markings (link to article with full details), here are some guidelines for making safer choices for baby food storage — plus some specific safer choices/brands that we here at Lead Safe…

WeeSprout baby feeding jars painted with high-Lead paint: a violation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, with criminal penalties possible

Five screenshots from the WeeSprout website: An image of the product tested by Lead Safe Mama, LLC for which the paint tested positive for a high level of Lead. Testing was completed using XRF Technology: A screenshot of the WeeSprout Instagram page as of 3/10/2023: [TEXT: “WeeSprout — We offer products…

Tabor Place claims the paint on their bottles / sippy cups is Lead-free & Cadmium-free. This is simply not true. Yet ANOTHER Lead-painted baby bottle!

First a bunch of images to start! My youngest son Charlie holding one of the bottles (wearing gloves to be safe!) We took this picture (above) in response to this sticker on the box (since Charlie is my “little one”) So that we could post the picture online and tag Tabor Place to make sure they…

Medela glass baby bottle/breast milk storage: 25 ppm Cadmium + 68 ppm Lead + 86 ppm Antimony. Safe by all standards.

Published: April 7, 2022 While the Lead level in the yellow paint on this bottle is “technically” and “legally” safe by all U.S. federal standards (the bottle is fully compliant with both FDA and USCPSC standards), given the fact that there are readily available truly Lead-free baby bottle (and breast milk storage) options, we do…

babymoov glass baby food storage jar with plastic orange lid: 37 ppm Lead + 35 ppm Antimony

Reading #1) Plastic Lid 60-second test Lead (Pb): non-detect Cadmium (Cd): non-detect Mercury (Hg): non-detect Bromine (Br): non-detect Chromium (Cr): non-detect Titanium (Ti): 3,817 +/- 289 ppm Barium (Ba): 165 +/- 104 ppm No other metals found in consumer goods mode. Reading #2) White painted logo 60-second test Lead (Pb): 36 +/- 9 ppm Cadmium…

Paulie Jar insulated stainless steel containers (sold by Mighty Nest & clearly marketed for use by kids), positive for Lead.

October 31, 2020 – Saturday Halloween! Tonight (at 10:49 East Coast Time) a reader contacted me with the following message (continue reading below the image):My reader and I had a bit of a follow-up conversation via Facebook messenger – as I do with so many of my readers! I was not at all surprised to…

Small newer Weck baby food canning jar with glass lid, as high as 159 +/- 18 ppm Lead [100 is unsafe for kids]

XRF Testing of Clear Glass Weck Jars The test results shared in this blog post are for the taller of the two “baby food”-size jars pictured here (this is the jar on the left in the image below). Continue scrolling down below the images for the full XRF test results for this recently-manufactured Weck brand…

WHY IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL?! Jervis & George glass sippy cup jar: 6,422 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe for kids) + 88 Cadmium

Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing — a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety…

1939 Physician’s Sample Tin of Baby Formula: 456,200 ppm Lead. Frankly the implications of this one are terrifying.

When tested with an XRF instrument this vintage tin of “Mead Johnson & Co” baby formula supplement (a “Physician’s Sample” – “Not to be sold”) had the following readings (on the the sealing line of the tin when tested for a minimum of 60 seconds). Lead (Pb): 456,200 +/- 3,400 ppm Chromium (Cr): 660…

Ball Brand Baby Food Jar with Plastic Lid

Small Ball Jar with plastic lid #LeadFree Tested “non-detect” for lead using an XRF instrument Amazon Affiliate Link: http://amzn.to/2vRng7q All components tested. – Please consider supporting my independent consumer goods advocacy work at: Http://www.GoFundMe.com/LeadSafeMama