![]() ![]() Each set of test results reported is from a 60-second test unless otherwise noted. One full set of XRF test results is always reported, however tests are done multiple times to confirm the results. Test results reported here on the Lead Safe Mama blog are accurate, replicable and science-based. As a result, even brand new china can have unsafe levels of Lead (unsafe when compared to the regulatory standards for items intended for use by children.) Are these readings accurate? China (and any dishware for that matter) is not considered to be an “item intended for use by children” and therefore is not regulated for total Lead content in the paint, glaze or decorative elements. Newly manufactured items intended for use by children today (post-2011) are considered illegal (and unsafe) if the paint, glaze or coating is 90 ppm Lead (or higher). (the white and colored areas all had similar readings) When tested with an XRF instrument the 2001 Butterfly Meadow pattern china dish pictured here had the following readings: Glaze on the food surface of the dish and radio), on t he Today Show Kids in the House Al Jazeera English The Voice of Russia CBS This Morning, and through news stories on CBS ABC NBC, and even Fox News – as well as in countless podcasts and other interviews. Tamara’s advocacy work has been mentioned in print in The New York Times the New York Post Mother Jones Parents Magazine MNN.com TruthOut WebMD the Huffington Post, USA Today Grok Nation, and more (too many outlets to list!) – and in other media (T.V. She goes by #LeadSafeMama on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram and has over 2,500 separate posts of information (mostly consumer goods test results) on her blog at. It is with the help, support, and participation of these readers that she conducts and reports on independent testing of consumer goods for toxicants (Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, and Antimony), using high-accuracy X-Ray Fluoresence analysis ( read more about that here). As of November 15, 2020, she has had more than 1.5 million unique individual readers visit her blog in the past 12 months (with over 3.5 million page views!) – from more than 200 countries (per Google Analytics) around the world! She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons.
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