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Since I’ve got grumpy men on my mind… I always think about this research when ornery old (mostly) men get all snippy about lead. You know, the whole “What are you freaking out about, we used to chew on lead for breakfast! And I turned out FINE!” gaslighting thing. I’m sure you’ve got one in your life. Well here’s a study that showed people with higher lead in…

Ugh. Seriously. The lead concerns are NEVER ENDING in our house. If you know my background, we spent years and incredible stress to renovate the lead hazards in our house. Then we worked our butts off and spent months and thousands of dollars to deal with the contaminated soil. So last week we had some builders come over to finish the window frames and scribers around where weatherboards…

Ive just left the Wasteminz Residential Lead conference, where I’ve spent the last two days with THE PEOPLE who care about reducing New Zealander’s exposure to lead. I’ve made some great connections. I’ve heard some awesome talks. I presented yesterday about my story and some of your stories. We started something here that I really feel is the start of some concerted multidisciplinary efforts to make an impact…

Everybody seems to asking about Temu, since they are bombarding everyone with ads on every platform. So I just wanted to put out a warning to beware buying toys and kids products from sites like this. And that includes Wish, Aliexpress and Amazon too. Sites like this have zero accountability and can skirt children’s safety regulations like there’s no tomorrow. If their products are found to be unsafe…

Thanks to everyone for sharing photos of the bottom of their drink bottles! Here are three that stood out, that I’d like to share as examples for what to watch out for. The first is the Sistema which has been tested with XRF and we know has lead. This photo shows dangerous wear in the area of the lead sealing dot, which could potentially expose the lead in…

Let’s talk about lead sealing dots- on the bottom of insulated stainless steel drink bottles. Crocodile creek and Sistema bottles have it, but probably so do every other like them. Send me a photo of the bottom of yours! Is it worn? Has a cover come off it? Is there naked lead exposed there?