S2E10 Lead Expert Spills the Tea on Stanley Cups
Have you ever wondered how consumer goods get recalled? In this episode the Green Docs spill the tea with Tamara Rubin, the woman behind many of those recalls related to lead and food toxicity – including most recently calling out Stanley Cup Tumblers. You may have seen Saturday Night Live satirizing the safety of these “Big Dumb Cups.” Tamara brings her experience as the mother of two children with lead poisoning to drive her passion as an activist and filmmaker – and as the “Lead Safe Mama” she delivers everything you need to know about protecting you and your family from toxics at home.
Bruce and Nate also review the rise in premature births across the US and share a little-known risk factor you can avoid. They also weigh in on the "take your shoes off at the door" controversy; or as Sex and the City called it, "a woman's right to shoes." Finally, they identify yet another benefit of garlic – hint: it involves removing lead. They even incorporate garlic into a wellness mocktail helpfully named, “you don’t have to take your cloves off.” And if you thought that ingredient was surprising – wait until you hear what they have to say about giraffe milk.
Show Notes
Have you ever wondered how consumer goods get recalled? In this episode the Green Docs spill the tea with Tamara Rubin, the woman behind many of those recalls related to lead and food toxicity – including most recently calling out Stanley Cup Tumblers. You may have seen Saturday Night Live satirizing the safety of these “Big Dumb Cups.” Tamara brings her experience as the mother of two children with lead poisoning to drive her passion as an activist and filmmaker – and as the “Lead Safe Mama” she delivers everything you need to know about protecting you and your family from toxics at home.
Bruce and Nate also review the rise in premature births across the US and share a little-known risk factor you can avoid. They also weigh in on the "take your shoes off at the door" controversy; or as Sex and the City called it, "a woman's right to shoes." Finally, they identify yet another benefit of garlic – hint: it involves removing lead. They even incorporate garlic into a wellness mocktail helpfully named, “you don’t have to take your cloves off.” And if you thought that ingredient was surprising – wait until you hear what they have to say about giraffe milk.
Show Links
Stanley Cup tumblers with lead
https://abc7chicago.com/stanley-cups-lead-oversize-tumblers-tiktok/14378499/
Preterm birth rates rising in the US
https://abc7chicago.com/stanley-cups-lead-oversize-tumblers-tiktok/14378499/
Should you take your shoes off at the door?
Tamara Rubin’s website: leadsafemama.com or tamararubin.com
Saturday Night Live’s “Big dumb cups”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tUO2mp99Q
Tamara’s lead documentary, MisLEAD
https://tamararubin.com/2023/01/a-link-to-my-film/
Federal guidelines for homes with lead-based paint (Housing and Urban Development)
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/healthy_homes/lbp/hudguidelines
Lead-safe renovation guidelines for homeowners (EPA)
https://www.epa.gov/lead/lead-safe-renovations-diyers
Preterm birth and air pollution
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/climate-change-and-pregnancy-preterm-birth/
Preterm birth and heat
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3811
Our research into both air pollution and heat and preterm birth
Mocktails
We Don't Have to Take Our Cloves Off garlic mocktail:
https://blackrestaurantweeks.com/we-dont-have-to-take-our-cloves-off-roasted-garlic-cocktail/
Garlicky Citrus Non-Alcoholic Bloody Mary:
https://spiceworldinc.com/health/delicious-mocktails-for-a-dry-january/
If you like your mocktails to have a little bit of kick to them, then you will love the Garlicky Citrus Non-Alcoholic Bloody Mary. Since this recipe contains tomato juice, you can receive nutritional benefits from it. Tomato juice is said to be a great source of vitamin C, vitamin B, and potassium. To discover how this mocktail can benefit your health, follow these steps to make it!
To make this mocktail, you will need:
- 3 cloves of Spice World’s Organic Peeled Garlic, roasted
- Drizzle of olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of horseradish
- 1 cup of tomato juice
- ½ of a jalapeno
- 1 orange slice
- Half of a lemon
- 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
- Optional: garnish with a celery stick
Directions:
- In a small pan with a drizzle of olive oil, roast your Spice World’s Organic Peeled Garlic under medium heat until slightly brown in color.
- Muddle together your roasted garlic, orange slice, lemon, jalapeno, and horseradish in a shaker.
- Add in your tomato juice and Worcestershire sauce and then shake.
- Add ice to a class and pour in the drink.
- Garnish with a celery stick if desired. Enjoy!
Tamara Rubin
Owner, Lead Safe Mama, LLC
Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).
Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
Since 2009, Tamara has been conducting XRF testing (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
In the past week, Tamara’s work has been covered by every major news outlet in the United States, and countless outside of the United States as well!
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