She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009 and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. Tamara’s sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in August of 2005. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. Tamara Rubin is a Federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. Note: I do have disabled children underfoot pretty much 24-7 for the foreseeable future – so it may be a bit! Thank you for being part of the international conversation for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead-poisoning prevention. Please let me know if you have any questions about the work here on this site (and about this post in particular.) I will do my best to answer them personally as soon as I have a moment. Thank you for reading and for sharing my posts. While you are here, please find the time to read about something really important – Lead painted baby bottles manufactured in Germany and sold on Amazon to customers in the United States in 2021.The overview post discussing the testing methodologies for test results reported on this website.Fun vlogger video discussing my findings (and the lack of ethical behavior by Paparazzi in general).Paparazzi earrings that tested positive for Antimony and Arsenic.Cadmium causes cancer – even when present at “trace levels”.) Paparazzi ring with 265,300 ppm Cadmium (At least one component has 26.5% Cadmium.The Lead Safe Mama Paparazzi category of posts.Thank you so much for helping to change the world – exposing one corporate bad actor at a time… using science.Īdditional Paparazzi- posts here on If you have information that confirms the date of purchase please send that to me as well (like a copy of a digital receipt or similar.).

I will hold onto it if it is positive - in case I need it as evidence.I will send the piece back to you if it is negative for toxic metals.If you send me a piece of the jewelry for testing, please include (in your package) a note with your name, e-mail address and mailing address.Please check out the links below to see if it is a piece I have already tested or reported on or not.If you would like to send me a piece of Paparazzi jewelry for testing (a piece I have not yet tested) I will test it for free and report the results here on the Lead Safe Mama website. At those levels, the metals in question are clearly constitutive components knowingly included in the ingredients mix during the manufacturing process. “Contaminants”– Moreover, the heavy metals (Cadmium and Antimony, specifically) found in some Paparazzi pieces could not conceivably be termed “ contaminants” at the levels found.“Trace amounts”– The levels of of toxic heavy metals found in several of the jewelry pieces in question could NOT be considered “trace” (by ANY metric)! Many of their pieces have been tested (using XRF technology) and found to have one or more components with EXTREMELY HIGH levels of dangerous heavy metals.The biggest lie in this letter from Paparazzi to their “consultants” is that their jewelry may have only “trace” levels of toxic “contaminants”. Please read the full letter from Paparazzi below - but also read the additional posts I have written about their products. This piece of masterful greenwashing bullshit was apparently sent out to Paparazzi consultants this week (the week of December 20, 2021). This letter (from Paparazzi to their MLM “consultants” – see the image below) was shared with me by a reader in December of 2021.

Please read the letter from Paparazzi below.

Paparazzi 2021 zi pieces