Lead Safe Mama Lab Testing: Pink Crayola Crayon
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Testing Crayons - this campaign is to cover the cost of testing and reporting for ONE crayon - a Pink Crayola
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July 04, 2025
Friday
Hi all!
We have set this GoFundMe campaign up today to raise funds to cover the cost of testing and reporting for the specific product pictured here & mentioned above (see campaign image and title).
This will be the third crayon that we send to the lab for testing.
We will be adding more narrative details about this initiative (including links to the published lab reports once the testing has been completed and the lab report has been published) over the coming days and weeks (via updates to this campaign).
Once the campaign funds (once we reach our goal to cover the cost of testing and reporting for this product) we will close this campaign (we will turn off the donations for the campaign) and then it typically takes 2 to 4 weeks (and sometimes, rarely - a bit longer) for us to get the results back from the lab and publish the results on the Lead Safe Mama website: http://www.LeadSafeMama.com
All of the articles with the lab reports for products we have tested are pinned here when they are initially published (on our website menu):
The lab reports can also be found here - this is the landing page with ALL of our lab reports linked. It is a good page to bookmark and check back on periodically, as it is updated almost daily - and currently has over 450 linked lab reports for products we have tested with this initiative:
As of the time of publishing this campaign - the Lead Safe Mama, LLC community collaborative laboratory testing initiative has identified 81 lab tested safer choices : https://tamararubin.com/2025/06/81/
If you are interested in learning more about the community-collaborative / community-funded laboratory food testing (testing food, supplements, and cosmetics for the following toxicants: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, & Arsenic) 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 some of our other GoFundMe campaigns - here's the link with all of our open campaigns : https://www.gofundme.com/s?q=lead+safe+mama&location-description=Portland%2C+OR&location-lat=45.520247&location-lng=-122.674195&c=342
Here's a link to an article published in the Guardian TODAY (June 9, 2025) following up on our consumer goods testing work:
In May of 2025 Consumer Reports Magazine published a piece following up on the work of the Lead Safe Mama, LLC Laboratory testing initiative: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/cassava-flour-chips-bread-more-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a7817220954/
In April of 2025 - The Guardian covered our work testing toothpaste products through this community collaborative initiative:
The April toothpaste story ended up being covered by news outlets all over the world - you can find many of them here on this link : https://tamararubin.com/press/
You can also read more about this work on the following links:
1. This link has the budget for the expenditure of the funds raised:
2. This link explains how to nominate a product for testing:
3. Here also is the "About" page from the Lead Safe Mama website:
4.This page discusses the Lead Safe Mama, LLC Business Model:
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!
You can also support Lead Safe Mama, LLC with a Monthly contribution via Patreon . Look up "Lead Safe Mama" on Patreon - and set up a monthly gift of whatever you can afford. We share lab reports on our Patreon account as soon as they are published as well.
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Organizer
Tamara Rubin
Organizer
Portland, OR