For City of New Haven

Find the lead, and put your grant to work.

FluoroSpec is a low-cost lead-detection kit. You spray a small amount of a reagent (methylammonium bromide) on a surface, and under a UV flashlight it glows bright green wherever there is lead paint or lead dust. There are three ways I can help City of New Haven with it: an affordable field test for your crews, an advertising rebate to help you recruit the inspectors and contractors you need, and hands-on support that includes a risk map of your county built together with you.

$7,765,930
your HUD award
8
states validated
$0
the map, free
Start a 100-kit pilot ($2,000) Call 631-461-1838

What I can do for your program

Here are the three main ways I can help.
1
The field test, at your price
The kit glows on lead paint and lead dust under a UV light, so your inspectors can quickly see which units are worth a full XRF reading and a lab sample, and your crews can confirm that dust is gone before and after the work for your RRP records. $50 a kit at 100, $35 at 250, $25 at 500.
2
An advertising rebate to grow your crews
When you buy kits, you earn a marketing credit worth 15% of what you spend, which you can use to recruit the inspectors and abatement contractors your area needs. The shortage of trained workers is the main thing that keeps grants from being spent, so this credit goes straight at that problem.
3
Support and collaborative access, wherever you need it
You get the national risk map, your state's validation, and the full method behind our white paper, all for free. We will build a risk map of your county together with you, which you can see described below. We help connect your contractors to training through the Lead and Healthy Housing Conferences. And when you need a hand, you can reach me on the phone. Buying a kit means you get a real person to work with, not just a shipment.

A risk map of your county, down to each home

A regular risk map can point you to a neighborhood. This one can point you to a specific house.

We start with the method we describe in our white paper, which uses the age of housing and local poverty to estimate lead risk. We then sharpen it down to each individual property using the year that home was built. You match that risk layer against your enrollment and waitlist addresses on your own systems, so the names of the families you serve never reach us. What you get back is a ranked list of homes to visit: the oldest and highest-risk homes where children actually live, in the order you should knock on the doors.

The data on your families never leaves your building. We give you the risk layer, and the matching happens entirely on your side. This tells you where to look first. It does not tell you which homes definitely have lead, and the kit is what confirms a hazard on the spot.
See a live exampleRead how it works

The map is backed by real data, not a guess

This is the kind of thing your epidemiologist can check for themselves.

We compared the map against real measured childhood blood lead levels in eight states, and it holds up at about the same strength that the federal EPA study reported.

See the 8-state validationOpen the national mapRead the white paper
Cleared to buy

Fluoro-Spec Inc. manufactures the reagent under a U.S. EPA-authorized Low Volume Exemption under TSCA Section 5 (40 CFR 723.50), and the finished kit is sold in commerce today. Public lead programs already purchase it, including New Hampshire DHHS and the City of Columbus. Retail purchase of the finished kit is straightforward; the only thing that is non-transferable is the exemption to manufacture the active ingredient, which stays with us. Full regulatory disclosures, including the methylammonium bromide composition and the TSCA, DEA, and OSHA posture, are on our Safety & Compliance page.

The map shows you where the risk is, and the test confirms it.

New Hampshire DHHS got started with a 100-kit pilot, and I would be glad to set up the same thing for City of New Haven.

Email Eric directly Call 631-461-1838

You are in the northeast, so the natural place to meet is the Lead & Healthy Housing Conference in Manchester NH, Nov 3-5, where FluoroSpec will be.

Fluoro-Spec Inc. 9 Technology Dr, East Setauket NY 11733 · eric@fluorospect.com · 631-461-1838. It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling and intended use. See Safety & Compliance. This page was prepared for City of New Haven.