XRFTesting

Deconstructing KitchenAid’s greenwashed response to findings of Lead in their stand mixer attachments

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Here’s a template for messaging or calling KitchenAid and demanding Lead-free replacement stand mixer attachments

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…

A point-by-point response to KitchenAid’s public statements regarding Lead Safe Mama, LLC’s findings of Lead contamination in their standard mixer attachments

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…

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.

Because you asked: XRF test results for a 2022 green glass San Pellegrino bottle

December 18, 2022 — Sunday In response to the original Lead Safe Mama article (link) about XRF test results for a green glass San Pellegrino bottle (originally published in April of 2017), Lead Safe Mama readers have asked me to test a more recent bottle from this brand. I purchased one of these bottles…

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…

Corelle: Are your vintage dishes safe for use with food? Probably not.

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My post about Corelle dishes (from December 2019) has not been challenged by Corelle’s legal department (there’s no benefit to them in challenging the truth.)

December 25, 2021 – Saturday If you have not read this post yet, please do READ the full post (linked above and below) and let me know if you have any questions (after you have read the entire post. ;-)) PLEASE NOTE: If this information were – in any way – “false” or “fake news” (as a few individuals have…

How many items can you test with an XRF instrument in one hour?

World Kitchen Cherish Pattern white ceramic gravy boat with lid: 30 ppm Lead on the food surface (safe by all standards)

Steel Wool Scrubby Thing (brand unknown): Non-Detect for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic & Antimony

Link to this product on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3is9YYU 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…