Lead-paint dust, visualized
Lead isn't good, essentially.Tools for both environment and diet.
The lead in your kid's body is the lead they took in. Test the inputs.
The environment can be zero. Diet can be close to zero. The kit gets you there in thirty seconds.
0%
of US adults over 40 have zero detectable lead in their blood.
NHANES, multiple rounds. See the cohort chart.
47,802
baby food test results on file. The clean brands are not the obvious ones.
California AB 899 disclosure. See the source.
4–5×
more lead absorbed by a young child than by an adult from the same exposure.
How the test works.
The reagent is methylammonium bromide in alcohol. When it touches lead, the lead forms perovskite quantum dots and they glow green under a small flashlight. Not by claim. By physics. Other metals do not glow.
Swabs miss lead under glaze. Labs take four weeks and four hundred dollars. Blood tests come after the exposure already happened. The kit shows you the source, on the surface, in thirty seconds.
This is is not a lead test.
It is a photo. A photo cannot tell you what was in the formula tin, the painted crib rail, the well water, the dust under the rug. Only a test can do that.
Every kid born before 1980 has a photo like this and a lead burden nobody measured. Yours does not have to.
Two minutes of free quizzes below. Thirty seconds with the kit at the bottom.
First, check the environment.
Where your kid lives, sleeps, crawls, and plays. Six taps that auto-advance. You get a plain answer and one next step.
Environment risk in 60 seconds
Five quick questions about where your child lives and plays. You get a plain answer at the end, with one next step.
Then check the diet.
What goes in their mouth. Formula, pouches, dishes, spices, water. Same format. Same plain answer.
Diet risk in 60 seconds
Six quick taps. We score what your kid actually eats. You get a plain answer at the end and one next step.
Get the Lead-Safe Start Stack.
Every tool on this page in one email. Plus a discount code on the kit when you are ready.
- Six "first test" how-to guides (old house, renovation, baby food, dishes, thrift, hunting)
- Baby food lot lookup link, auto-refreshed
- The five-minute soil sample method
- ZIP code lead-risk screener
- Curated infant formula and baby bottle lists
- Discount code on the Fluoro-Spec kit
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Or go straight to the tool that fits.
Every link below is free. Each one opens a specific data tool or how-to for one slice of the problem.
Environment
Old paint, soil, dust, water, the thrifted item in their room.
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ZIP code risk screenerType your ZIP. See what your neighborhood looks like for lead.›
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Your house, before you renovateDust is the part that matters most.›
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Finding lead-based paint dustThe actual method, recognized for use under EPA RRP.›
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Vintage toys and thrifted findsThe painted figurine. The crib. The 1970s tin truck.›
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Soil sample, how toThe yard where they actually play. Five-minute method.›
Diet
Pouches, formula, the bottle they drink from.
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Baby food toolkitAll four datasets in one place. Brands, ingredients, recalls.›
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Baby food lot lookupType a lot code from a pouch or jar. See if it's flagged.›
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Which baby bottles have lead2026 list. Model and print, not just brand.›
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Infant formula tested for leadEvery formula we have data on, sortable.›
The Full Fluoro-Spec Test Kit.
Find lead on any paint chip, dust wipe, soil sample, dish, painted toy, or formula scoop. Thirty seconds. Lead lights up green.
- ✓About 3,600 tests per kit. Roughly 2¢ per test.
- ✓Drip bottle + spray bottle. UV flashlight. Spray extender ring (free).
- ✓EPA TSCA Sec 5 LVE L-25-0206 approved for commercial sale.
- ✓Recognized for use under EPA RRP for lead-based paint dust.
- ✓Same chemistry the labs use. Different price.
- ✓Ships in 48 hours. Free US shipping.
The hand in the photo is not your kid yet.
Two minutes of free quizzes above. Thirty seconds with the kit below. Both of them put real numbers next to what is in the dust, the dish, the formula. Photos can not.
Get the kit, $75