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KitchenAid’s latest (Greenwashed) corporate response to the Lead Safe Mama findings of Lead in their attachments (stand by for my detailed response)

Thursday – December 22, 2022 The corporate greenwashing and deflection of responsibility has been coming fast and furious today! Below is KitchenAid’s response that was sent to several concerned Lead Safe Mama readers today. I will post my full response this asap.

KitchenAid UK assures customers their products have no lead: “There is no Lead in any of our items.”

December 13, 2022 – Tuesday Just Leaving This One Here – LOL! – More info at LeadSafeMama.com today – just check out the home page where there are several related highlighted articles. Thanks! Update: December 14, 2022 – Wednesday Here’s another screenshot that a reader shared with me today…

Post on Instagram just now: Perhaps we should sue KitchenAid for slander?

December 13, 2022 – Tuesday Published on Instagram Just Now So. Several people have told me this morning that KitchenAid representatives told them that my work is somehow a scam. Folks have also shared that KitchenAid has shared that my work is not true, that somehow my scientific testing of their products (demonstrating that their…

Lead Safe Mama readers told me KitchenAid indicated they were “lawyering up” so I created a series of videos in response….

December 12, 2022 – Monday These videos are pretty self explanatory. They were made in response to comments from multiple Lead Safe Mama readers that KitchenAid had indicated they were referring this matter to their legal team. I am posting them below in the order that I posted them on Instagram… hopefully for a bit…

December 2022 KitchenAid Update (Re: Lead-contaminated cast-Aluminum KitchenAid Paddles, Whisk & Dough Hooks)

Link to recent article (December 2022) with comprehensive overview of the issue Link to template/ language to use when contacting KitchenAid Link to the Lead Safe Mama point-by-point response to their boiler plate denial/ deflection response (“Throughout our 111 year history…”) A piece with videos showing me purchasing and testing a NEW paddle attachment from Walmart…

LEAD FREE: KitchenAid Balloon Whisk, c. 2007/2008

2007/2008 KitchenAid balloon whisk attachment: No lead – no mercury – no cadmium – no arsenic. No rhyme or reason that I can see – as to why most have tested positive and this one example has tested negative! #XRFTesting

My Personal KitchenAid Mixer

KitchenAid Mixer Blade & Dough Hook: Between 600 – 800 ppm lead!!! This is MY KitchenAid – from my wedding to my ex-husband in 1994. I had tested the blue part before and it was negative and before testing the blades from my friends’ mixers it NEVER occurred to ME to test my own blades (doh!) –…

KitchenAid Brand Paddle Attachment for Upright Counter-Top Stand Mixer, purchased new c. 2006: 644 ppm Lead

When tested with an XRF instrument this KitchenAid stand mixer paddle attachment (purchased new, circa 2006) was positive for 644 ppm Lead. It is important to note that this is NOT the new (2018) stainless steel paddle, this is the “burnished” finish version of the paddle. I have not yet tested the new stainless…

KitchenAid Mixer Attachments (c. 2014): As high as 2,434 ppm Lead (90 ppm Lead is unsafe in items intended for use by kids)

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…

KitchenAid Dough Hook, c. 2015

Newer (2015) KitchenAid Dough Hook: 315 ppm lead — The level of lead that is considered unsafe for an item intended for children is 90 ppm lead. Items like this are not regulated for total lead content (as detectable with an XRF instrument.) I am NOT saying that this item will poison you, but I AM asking……

KitchenAid Whisk Attachment

KitchenAid whisk attachment: The top “nut” on this whisk attachment tested positive for lead at 274 parts per million (ppm.) — The level of lead that is considered unsafe for an item intended for children is 90 ppm lead. Items like this are not regulated for total lead content. I am NOT saying that this item…

KitchenAid Paddle Attachment, c. 2007

KitchenAid paddle: 607 parts per million lead (ppm). Purchased New Circa 2007(?) It was a “non-detect” for arsenic. — The level of lead that is considered unsafe for an item intended for children is 90 ppm lead. Items like this are not regulated for total lead content. I am NOT saying that this item will…

KitchenAid Beater Attachment

KitchenAid beater: 445 ppm lead. And this black stuff came off all over the swab… How could the company even consider this safe for food use?! — The level of lead that is considered unsafe for an item intended for children is 90 ppm lead. Items like this are not regulated for total lead content (as…