Lead Safe Mama Lab Testing: Good & Gather Organic Quinoa

Tuesday - October 15, 2024

Hi all!

In the interest of getting more new Lead Safe Mama, LLC Laboratory Food Testing GoFundMe campaigns launched quickly - we are publishing these fundraising campaigns without the full detailed narrative but will be adding more narrative details (including links to the published lab reports once the testing has been completed) over the coming days and weeks (via updates to this campaign).

If you are interested in learning more about the community-collaborative / community-funded, truly independent, 3rd party laboratory food & supplement testing (testing food and supplements for the following toxicants: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic - and sometimes Antimony) that we are doing (through Lead Safe Mama, LLC - a unique, community collaborative, woman-owned, small business based in Portland, Oregon - a small business with a focus on childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety) - please check out the links below which have all of the details - including a detailed budget for how the funds will be spent for each food or supplement we are raising money to test.

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Some links of interest:

Here's a link to an article from Consumer Reports Magazine - an article that discusses some collaborative follow up we worked on with Consumer Reports in response to some of the early food testing done by Lead Safe Mama, LLC: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lesser-evil-serenity-kids-cassava-puffs-high-lead-levels-a2654657249/

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Here's a follow up piece from Consumer Reports published last month (September 2024): https://www.consumerreports.org/consumer-protection/building-a-better-world-together-october-2024-a4240139328/

You can also read more about this work on the following links:

1. Some background - this link has the detailed budget for the expenditure of the funds raised:

https://tamararubin.com/2024/05/how-to-test-food-yourself-via-a-lab-submission-for-lead-cadmium-arsenic-and-mercury/

2. A spreadsheet with food testing we have completed and have in progress - updated periodically:

https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/food-testing-fundraising-campaigns-update-all-batches-of-lead-safe-mama-llc-food-testing-2024/

3. A landing page with links to each of the articles about completed food testing that we have published to date - including the full lab reports for each of the foods tested:

https://tamararubin.com/2024/05/links-to-all-of-the-articles-related-to-food-testing-done-by-lead-safe-mama-llc-in-one-place/

4. A landing page with links to all of the safer foods we have found with this food testing work so far (foods that have tested "non-detect" for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic - with the limits of detection noted in the lab reports we have published):

https://tamararubin.com/2024/07/lead-safe-mamas-landing-page-for-lab-tested-safer-foods/

Thank you!

Lead Safe Mama, LLC is NOT a 501(c)3 nonprofit - so contributions in support of this initiative (truly independent, 3rd party, laboratory testing of foods and supplements) are NOT tax-deductible gifts - but are greatly appreciated!