Hey everyone, I would like to bring to your attention a topic that affects us all, especially children.
“Lead poisoning was not “solved” with the 1978 “ban” on Lead in residential paint; more than one in three children worldwide today has had an unsafe level of Lead in their blood in their lifetime.”
Lead testing is a part of routine Well Child visits in the US, through a finger prick. There is NO “safe” lead blood level for children. “Children under the age of 6 are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning since young children absorb 4-5x as much ingested lead as adults from a given source.” Usually you will be asked if you live in a home built before 1978. But there are MANY sources of lead poisoning all around us today, that you may not know about. In the US, products are not supposed to have more than 90 ppm lead if they are targeted towards children, but as you will see, many such products greatly exceed this— even products marketed as lead-free!
This lady has an XRF device that will list the elements an object is made of. They are very expensive, like $20-30,000+, so this is not technology the average person has access to. You can search many brands or types of objects to see if she has scanned them.
She recently made a documentary, MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic:
*search the video title on Vimeo if it doesn’t show up
High risk items include:
A boy poisoned by eating off a leaded plate each day:
“A little boy in Wisconsin had a mother who had to wake up and leave for work very early each day. The boy’s grandmother lived nearby. Every day mom would wake up her kiddo and take him to grandma’s home and leave for work. Grandma would then finish the morning routine with the kiddo. She would give him breakfast and care for him until the mother was done at work. Grandma was really focused on making sure the little boy would have a good experience and feel special. Every morning he had his cereal mixed in a rose decorated bone-china bowl, pictured here. Then grandma would put the bowl in the microwave to heat up the cereal. When the boy tested positive for lead in his blood an investigation was done — and this bowl was, tragically, determined to be the source of his poisoning! The bowl tested at 52,000 ppm lead!
These are the plates I grew up eating off of
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California 2017 Gallery of Toxic Kid’s Jewelry
To learn more, visit the START HERE page on Lead-Free Mama
Sorry for the crappy formatting (and the bold text gets stuck?). Please look into this issue, especially if you have kids. Lead exposure can cause permanent neurological issues, behavioral problems, and lower IQ in children, amongst other symptoms. Be careful what you bring into your home, and do your research!
“Lead poisoning was not “solved” with the 1978 “ban” on Lead in residential paint; more than one in three children worldwide today has had an unsafe level of Lead in their blood in their lifetime.”
Lead testing is a part of routine Well Child visits in the US, through a finger prick. There is NO “safe” lead blood level for children. “Children under the age of 6 are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning since young children absorb 4-5x as much ingested lead as adults from a given source.” Usually you will be asked if you live in a home built before 1978. But there are MANY sources of lead poisoning all around us today, that you may not know about. In the US, products are not supposed to have more than 90 ppm lead if they are targeted towards children, but as you will see, many such products greatly exceed this— even products marketed as lead-free!
This lady has an XRF device that will list the elements an object is made of. They are very expensive, like $20-30,000+, so this is not technology the average person has access to. You can search many brands or types of objects to see if she has scanned them.
She recently made a documentary, MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic:
*search the video title on Vimeo if it doesn’t show up
High risk items include:
- China plates, ceramics, anything glazed
- Costume jewelry, especially with crystals or sparkles
- Enamel
- Vintage toys, especially red paint (even up to 2005 for Thomas the Train wooden toys!)
- Stained glass
- Old houses, especially 100+ years old
- Old bathtubs
- Glasses with colored designs etched into them
- Brass objects or handles (on fancy pots/pans)
A boy poisoned by eating off a leaded plate each day:
“A little boy in Wisconsin had a mother who had to wake up and leave for work very early each day. The boy’s grandmother lived nearby. Every day mom would wake up her kiddo and take him to grandma’s home and leave for work. Grandma would then finish the morning routine with the kiddo. She would give him breakfast and care for him until the mother was done at work. Grandma was really focused on making sure the little boy would have a good experience and feel special. Every morning he had his cereal mixed in a rose decorated bone-china bowl, pictured here. Then grandma would put the bowl in the microwave to heat up the cereal. When the boy tested positive for lead in his blood an investigation was done — and this bowl was, tragically, determined to be the source of his poisoning! The bowl tested at 52,000 ppm lead!
These are the plates I grew up eating off of
:California 2017 Gallery of Toxic Kid’s Jewelry
To learn more, visit the START HERE page on Lead-Free Mama
Sorry for the crappy formatting (and the bold text gets stuck?). Please look into this issue, especially if you have kids. Lead exposure can cause permanent neurological issues, behavioral problems, and lower IQ in children, amongst other symptoms. Be careful what you bring into your home, and do your research!
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