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Answer 6 questions about your home and your kid. You get a real number: your child's µg/day vs the FDA limit. Free, no email needed.
Each topic is a complete walkthrough. What to know, what to test, what to do next.
Baby-proofing your house and your diet. Everything about lead in your house, formula, baby food, prenatal vitamins, and what to do before they arrive.
Start the journey → Everything aboutPaint, dust, windows, water, soil, toys. The walk-through every renter and homeowner should do once. Pre-1978 priority.
Walk the house → Everything aboutImported. Vintage. Hand-painted. Hand-me-down. Which categories fail. The 30-second drop test for any piece.
Audit the kitchen → Everything aboutCardiovascular risk · cognitive decline · bone resorption. Your lifetime lead burden, the kid in your house, the audit you owe both of them.
Read the senior track → Everything aboutJust bought a kit? The first ten surfaces in priority order, what counts as a positive, what to do when something glows.
Walk the first test → Everything aboutPick the foods your kid eats. Get total micrograms of lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury per day. 1,343 foods, 4 metals, free.
Open the calculator →Decide what to test first. Painted trim. A vintage plate. A baby bottle. The windowsill where dust collects. Old, hand-painted, or imported is a good place to start. The surface must be dry.
A spray or a drop, then the included 365 nm UV light. Green glow = lead. No glow = clean. Real time, with your own eyes. No app, no lab, no waiting.
Media sent in by real FluoroSpec users. Same glow, different places. The bright green is lead reacting in real time under UV.
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One spray or one drop, then 30 seconds under UV. These are the five vectors where lead most often shows up in a household.
Most importantly.
And 18 million of those have an active lead hazard.
The CDC has lowered the safe blood-lead threshold five times since 1970, and it keeps moving down. The dust on a windowsill is invisible. Standard hardware-store swabs were built to test paint chips, not the dust at the threshold of harm.
The complete household lead test. One kit covers every common source.
Two of everything. Best for families, moving into a new home, or gifting.
Precision testing for specific items. One drop, 30 seconds, clear answer.
Wide-area coverage for dust, floors, and windowsills. When you need to sweep a whole room.
Every kit includes the 96-page Lead Framework PDF, free.
12 quick questions. Your answers map to a real µg/day exposure estimate, compared to the FDA reference dose for your household. We tell you your Lead Safety Score and the kit that fits.
The three common ways to test for lead at home or through a lab. What each one actually does.
| FluoroSpec | Pro XRF | LeadTest swabs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Result type | Visible glow | Numeric | Color change |
| False positives | None (0/9 in field tests) | None | Rust, soap, pigment |
| Reads dust | Yes | Limited | No |
| Tests per dollar | 4,100+ / $75 | 1 / $300+ | ~10 / $30 |
| EPA registered | Yes (TSCA LVE L-25-0206) | Yes | No |
| Time to result | <30 seconds | Days | Minutes |
Send Eric a soil sample. He runs it personally on a $50,000 Niton XL5 Plus and emails the results back, usually within a week. Lead, cadmium, arsenic, and 20+ other metals quantified in parts per million. A $100 value, free with any FluoroSpec kit.
One kit covers paint, dust, dishware, toys, and plumbing. Ships in 2 days. 30-day money-back, no questions asked.
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FluoroSpec uses the same fluorescence chemistry that detects lead at parts-per-million levels in lab settings. It is approved for commercial sale by EPA under TSCA Sec 5 LVE L-25-0206 and detects below the HUD floor-dust standard of 10 µg per square foot.
False positives are rare and usually trace to a small set of materials (some uranium glass, certain mineral pigments). The reference card lists them. When in doubt, request the free soil-style XRF mail-in for a quantitative reading.
Rhodizonate swabs need a paint chip with raw paint exposed. The actual exposure path is dust at the threshold of harm. FluoroSpec reads the dust directly. The swab is asking a different, narrower question.
The reagent is non-toxic at the dilutions used and wipes off most surfaces with water. The kit ships with full handling instructions. Keep the bottle out of reach the same way you would any household cleaner.
Lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, chromium, and 15+ other metals quantified in parts per million on a Niton XL5 Plus XRF analyzer. You get a written report by email, usually within a week.
30 days, unconditional. Return it (or don’t) for a full refund for any reason. No restocking fees, no questions asked.
In their homes, with the kit
Tested my favorite morning mug. The whole rim lit up green. I almost cried.
Windowsill dust in our 1956 house. Showed up bright. Called abatement the next morning.
Sprayed the trim on the original baseboards. Everything glowed. We knew on contact.
Hand-me-down baby bottle from 1982. The graphics lit up. My toddler had been drinking from it.
Sprayed the windowsill in our 1948 house. The whole trim line lit up green. Called the abatement people the next day.
Found three mugs in my cabinet that lit up under the drip. Goodwill rim, vintage Fiestaware, and one I bought in Mexico. Tossed all three.
My toddler had elevated blood lead. The kit found the source in an afternoon. Painted dresser in her room, the previous owner had stripped and repainted with what turned out to be old leaded paint underneath.
Sent in a soil sample from our garden bed. Got a full XRF report back with lead at 380 ppm. Built a raised bed instead.
As a home inspector this thing is in my truck every day. Faster than a swab and it actually catches dust contamination.
Tested the turmeric I brought back from a trip. Glowed. Found out later that brand had been recalled in two countries.
