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Are Your Cups and Dishes Made with Lead?
This post is about lead in ceramic dishes and cups. It is also an overview…
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What About Trace Heavy Metals in New Toys?
This is a broad overview of ATSM toy safety standards as they relate to chemical heavy metals…
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“Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you…
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How to Choose Safer Beads and Jewelry
Given how many jewelry and bead supplies contain lead and cadmium, here are a few…
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What XRF Testing Can’t Tell Us
Handheld XRF testing does not tell us everything about an item. We will always be…
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How to Read Our XRF Posts
To make our XRF results easy to read, we created this short guide to explain…
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Which Beads and Findings are Toxic?
I used to be an avid jewelry maker. As a child, I remember going to…
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Lead in Your Stuff: A Guide
The history of manufacturing is incredibly toxic. From radium paint to asbestos, lead, flame retardants,…