The structural pieces that ship across detectlead.com, grouped into dropdowns. Open a category to see every working component in it: timers, modals, quizzes, screeners, sliders, charts, calculators, maps, brain SVGs. Embedded widgets are the live page, isolated.
Conversion, CTA & Nav 10 components
Structural pieces that ship across the funnel: timers, modals, sticky bars, price treatments, capture, breadcrumb.
Countdown Timer · modal + dock
Two-state offer device. Big red 48px Georgia timer in the modal, 24px in the dock. SessionStorage preserves state across page navigation. The demo below is a real ticking timer running on this page right now.
device.timerattention-grabbingmodal + dock pair
Real · ticking now
Exclusive offer · expires in15:00
Expires15:00Full FS Kit · $50Tap to see what's included →
Persistent floating CTA in the bottom-left, paired with a modal as its minimized state. Big red countdown timer is the standout. The demo below is the same markup as the live one, statically positioned so you can see it.
Full email-capture component composing the 6-tool download pack: Baby-Proof calc, Blood Lead calc, Baby Food Database, Bottle Review Sheet, Leaducational Pages, Lead Framework Book. Posts to Klaviyo list RPxSkQ (Download Pack Subscribers). On success, the 6 download links reveal in place. FluoroSpec excluded from the pack (it is the buy).
bookmark this page. the database and the leaducational pages update almost every day. the bottle sheet and the dish list grow as the lab finishes new runs.
or, if you want, grab a kit.
the information is free. the kit is for parents who, after reading the framework, decide they want to walk around the nursery with a drop bottle tonight. one drop of fluoro-spec on the painted side of a plate. if it's lead, it glows green in seconds. no lab.
Native <details> collapsible content. Used for fine-print disclosures, source citations, "show more" sections, FAQ items.
device.revealprogressive disclosure
Real · click summaryWhy is the 2.2 µg/day FDA IRL the threshold?
FDA's Interim Reference Level for children is set at 2.2 µg/day to keep blood lead below 3.5 µg/dL — the CDC reference value. It's a public-health action threshold, not a safe level. There is no known safe blood lead level. The IRL is the public-health action threshold.
The 6-stage Lead Safety Journey breadcrumb. Lives at the top of every journey/topic page. Pill-style steps with hover affordance, current-stage highlight.
device.journey-barsite-wide
Real · scroll to top to see live
The journey bar at the very top of this page is the device. The breadcrumb appears on the same 144 pages listed below.
Auto-advancing quiz and risk meter (inline), plus the live screener and cost-model tools.
Inline Quiz · auto-advancing
Auto-advancing single-question-at-a-time quiz. Weighted scoring, color-coded result band. The demo below is a real working 2-question quiz that scores and lands on a tier.
Standalone tool. Nine questions (location, build year, own/rent, household size, income band, child/pregnant, elevated blood lead, current benefits, rural/urban), then a prioritized stack of the federal, state, county, and city programs that pay for lead testing and lead-paint removal, each with a one-tap call button and a "what to say when you call" script. 170 programs across all 50 states plus DC, with an always-on national fallback so it never returns nothing. Lives at /pages/lead-help and is linked from the lead-screener result via a coarse, no-PII handoff.
device.lead-help9-step wizard170 programsHUD / state / localhandoff-aware
Real · click “Find help near me”
Find help paying for lead testing and removal
If your home may have lead, there are government programs that will test it, remove the lead paint, or cover your child's blood lead test, most of it free or low cost. Answer a few quick questions and we will show you the programs near you and exactly who to call. No name or email required.
About 2 minutes · Anonymous · Works in every U.S. state
This is a free public tool. It points you to real federal, state, county, and city programs and tells you what to say when you call. It does not collect your information and it is not a government website. If you are not sure where to start, the last card always gives you a person to call.
The 12-question home-risk wizard. Answers map to a µg/day exposure estimate against the FDA reference dose, returning a color-coded risk band, a big-number score, and a matched kit recommendation. Runs as a modal on the home page; reopening shows your previous score with a retake option.
Home-page wizard format applied to the baby funnel. One question per click, score bar climbs and reddens, FDA µg/day scoring with color-coded band and big-number reveal.
Cognitive decision-making test. Four decks, real win/loss scoring, tracks risky vs. advantageous choices. Illustrates how lead exposure degrades decision-making.
Timed cognitive processing-speed test, the single most lead-sensitive assessment on the site. Fill in symbols matching digits against a key, scored against population norms.
Free adaptive lead-risk screener for public health programs and community orgs. ZIP plus household profile produces a risk score and recommended actions.
The actual home page. Contains the source wizard quiz (modal overlay, one question per click, µg/day FDA scoring, color-coded score band, red big number). All wizard variants descend from this.
Representative of the easy-wins lesson family (19 pages). Each has the ew-quiz component: step-through questions, progress bar, room-by-room output. Around-the-house is the most complete instance.
tap to load · easy-wins-around-the-house
Data Charts & Sliders 28 components
Every interactive chart, slider and animated data viz, including the IQ-curve and ADHD sliders.
FDA IRL Card Pair
2.2 / 8.8 µg/day card pair. The FDA Interim Reference Level for children and adults. Anchor for any µg/day calculation across the site.
Self-contained Canvas choropleth. 22 county and state layers in a prominent left-rail switcher, Albers equal-area projection, hover tooltips, and the Murderland lead point-sources as toggleable markers. One client-side fetch of a compact JSON off the Shopify CDN, then everything is drawn on a single canvas. The instance below is the real working widget, live data and all.
recovered childhood blood-lead data from Reuters,
joined to the harms that tend to follow it. pick any layer in the
rail. darker is higher. county layers shade roughly 96 to 99%
of US counties; state layers shade all 48 contiguous states plus DC.
every layer carries its own Source line.
this is an ecological association, county to county,
not a claim about any one person. lead is one driver among several,
necessary but not sufficient. the cohort layer reads as a national
correlation at the birth cohort's modal age, painted on every state
so you can see it against the rest. the defensible signal in the
historical record is the steep decline after leaded gasoline was
removed, not a mid-century rise.
layers
recovered Reuters lead data and the documented downstream
harms. one fetch, drawn on canvas.
Murderland lead point-sources
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Source. childhood blood lead: Reuters "Off the Charts"
(Pell & Schneyer, 2016-17), underlying data U.S. CDC plus
state health departments via public-records requests. lead-paint
and income: EPA EJScreen 2.3. mortality: CDC NCHS. pain pills:
Washington Post DEA ARCOS. financial: U.S. Courts, HUD, Urban
Institute. state series: FBI UCR, FTC, CDC NCHS, NHTSA. cohort
layer: lead-cohort correlation engine, ecological association at
the birth cohort's modal age, not individual causation.
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lead is necessary, not sufficient. the same forces
that left lead in old paint and old soil also tracked with poverty,
housing age, and disinvestment, and those move with the harms too.
read this as one strong thread in a knot, shown county by county,
not a single cause and not a verdict on any individual.
Four-panel cohort explorer, pure inline SVG, all data inlined (no fetch). Panel 1 marches one birth cohort through its life by age. Panel 2 is the interactive overlay explorer (series dropdown, defaults to robbery, draws the outcome against that cohort's integrated childhood blood lead). Panel 3 is the CORE-vs-sequestered correlation leaderboard. Panel 4 is the integrated-driver curve. The instance below is the real working widget.
children cooked by lead (house paint, dominant for births
roughly 1910 to 1955, plus leaded gasoline peaking around 1972) became the
adults who acted out decades later, each in the calendar year they reached the
age that behavior happens. this is an ecological association across birth
cohorts, not a claim about any individual.
childhood lead was a high flat plateau through 1976 and
then a cliff, so the only defensible claim here is the post-1976 synchronized
decline as cleaner cohorts age in (the canonical Nevin / Reyes result), never
a mid-century rise. series that do not fit are kept and sequestered with a
stated reason, not deleted. that honesty is part of the argument.
panel 1
one cohort, marched through its life by age
the 1971 to 1976 birth cohort (peak childhood lead). each
dot is the calendar year that cohort reached the modal age for that outcome.
read left to right: school-leaving and young-offender age around 1990,
fraud and financial-failure age in the 2000s, midlife now. green = direction
matched the lead hypothesis, amber = it did not (kept, not hidden).
panel 2
cohort overlay explorer
outcome (by birth cohort)integrated childhood blood lead of that cohort
panel 3
correlation: CORE (headline) vs SEQUESTERED (kept, reasoned)
CORE: direction predicted in advance, fits the integrated childhood-lead driverSEQUESTERED: held out of the headline, with a stated mechanism
the headline rests on the strong CORE fits, sorted top to
bottom by strength: robbery (r=+0.93), fraud-perpetration arrests (+0.92),
cigarettes per capita (+0.89), high-school dropout (+0.85), motor-vehicle
death rate (+0.82). bar length is the Pearson r between the outcome and the
integrated childhood blood lead of the birth cohort that produces it at its
modal age.
panel 4
the driver: US childhood blood lead, 1900 to 2023
integrated paint plus gasoline childhood blood-lead
profile (Annest 1983 / NHANES II 1976-80 / Pirkle 1994 / CDC NHANES). a high
flat plateau near 16 ug/dL from 1930 to 1976, then the steep post-phaseout
cliff. because the input is flat then falls, the cohort signal can only
speak to the decline.
defensibility. these are ecological (population)
associations between an outcome and the integrated childhood blood lead of the
birth cohort that produces it at its modal age. association is not proof. lead
is treated as a contributing, necessary-not-sufficient factor, not a sole
cause. because childhood lead was high and flat before 1976, the defensible
claim is the post-phaseout decline, not any mid-century rise. sequestered
series are retained with a stated mechanism, never deleted. sources: recovered
Reuters lead data; EPA EJScreen; CDC NCHS; FBI UCR and BJS; US Courts; Federal
Reserve; NHTSA; NCES; Census; NIAAA; Fraser, Murderland (2025); driver Annest
1983 / NHANES / Pirkle 1994 / CDC.
Disease-risk family member. NHANES blood-lead to diabetes dose-response data.
Body & Health Visuals 2 components
Brain and life-stage SVG systems: the developmental-window and damage-progression art.
Brain SVG · 0–6 development window
Inline SVG visualization showing the 0–6 brain-development window. The original "brain wires up" sequence sized 25% → 95% across early childhood. The new life-stage SVG section below extends this into adulthood.
Editorial-style inline SVG illustrations matching the existing 0–6 brain. 8 files. Toddler on baby-proof. Kid on school-age content. Adult on cookware. Senior on /journey-seniors. Restrained red for harm, lime echoes the FluoroSpec glow. Vertical femur with thermometer-style fill across the lifetime accumulation curve (5% → 100%).
graphic.lifestage8 files · ~45KB totalno-gore design system
Real working search. Type a brand or pattern below — it hits the live dishes JSON (3,863 rows from EverythingLead + DetectLead's XRF database) and renders matches with verdict + ppm. Type "pyrex" or "talavera" to test.
Look up any baby food product by lot number. Returns lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury from the AB 899 database. Real Supabase lookup, 47,802 measurements.
Crowdsourced blood lead data collection. Users submit childhood blood lead readings to help build a national map. Supabase-backed submission form plus live display.
47,802 lot-level test results for lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury. Filter by brand, ingredient, or lot number. California AB 899 compelled disclosure data.
How childhood lead cost the U.S. trillions in lifetime earnings. Alkever 1995 IQ-to-earnings multiplier applied to 170M Americans with elevated childhood exposure.
tap to load · lead-earnings-loss
Baby Bottle Lead Lookup · live widget · /pages/baby ↗
Find your baby bottle in the list — color-coded pass/fail per bottle from ICP-MS testing. Interactive bottle lookup for 2026 results.
All 150+ detectlead.com pages indexed in one place. Organized by Stack, Toolkit, Hubs, Databases, Science, and Case Studies. Navigation hub with tabbed sections.
Source methodology page for the California AB 899 baby food database — 47,802 measurements from 39 brands. Explains how the data was obtained and cleaned.
Fluoro-Spec RRP briefing — how it works under EPA RRP rules, gated with access code. Interactive guide with quiz-style walkthrough.
Cohort Research Collection 5 components
The Leaded Generation collection: cohort hub plus four interactive widgets exploring tetraethyl-lead exposure across birth cohorts, countries, counties, and personal birth year.
Cross-country natural experiment: 10 nations, 10 leaded-gasoline phaseout dates, each country's homicide and suicide curves overlaid against its own cohort-lead curve.
County-by-county time map with the rail bucketed Exposure / Cohort fits / Sequestered, Play button to scrub through years.
tap to load · watch-the-leaded-generation-move
Lead Research Explorer
Lead exposure research, explorable
Every peer-reviewed study we could legally index on what lead does to people and where it comes from. Drill basket to sub-basket to specific entity to study design to population to decade. Built for researchers and clinicians.
Metadata from OpenAlex; abstracts and citations fetched live per paper on request. Read links resolve to the open-access copy where one exists, otherwise the DOI. Anchor references are the authoritative U.S. government toxicology reviews. A research aid, not medical or legal advice.
composition primitives 10
The non-widget building blocks that live on every page: stat strips, value cards, comparison rows, pull quotes, callouts, process steps, ribbons, anchor TOCs, photo captions, and source citations. These were not in v1.
composition · 01
Stat strip · big-number row
Three to four pull-numbers in a row, tabular-nums so the row stays still when values change. Used on /baby ("47,802 results"), /babyfood, /home-v2.
demo
47,802
baby food results
5,818
ceramic dishes
187
poisoning cases
30s
to a result at home
composition · 02
Value card · 3-column grid
Icon + heading + short body, repeated. The default block for "what's in the box," "why this," "what you can test." Auto-fit columns at 220px min.
demo
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Paint
Lead-based paint in pre-1978 homes, layered under newer coats. The drip bottle finds it on chips and chalking.
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Dust
The wipe-and-spray method for window sills, floor edges, and any surface a toddler crawls over.
◐
Dishes
Painted ceramic decorations glow green under UV. The white background stays dark.
composition · 03
Comparison row · us vs. them
Three-column table with a center divider. Used on /fluorospec-vs-lumetallix, /compare. Each row is one criterion, two verdicts.
demo
FluoroSpec FS1D
vs
Lumetallix
Drip and spray bottles, 30s reads
format
Single spray bottle, 2-3 min
UV-locked perovskite glow
chemistry
Same perovskite chemistry
$149 full kit, lifetime use
price
$199 single bottle, refill needed
composition · 04
Pull quote · verbatim block
Customer or expert quote with attribution. Left rust rule, Georgia, no oversize quotation marks, no italic body.
demo
Most of the people buying my lead tests already had a lead-poisoning diagnosis. The point is to test before, not after.
Eric Ritter · DetectLead
composition · 05
Notice callout · info / warn / ok
Three tones for inline asides. Icon + heading + body. Not for legal copy (those use the verbatim template).
demo
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How to read the glow
Bright green on the painted decoration means lead-bearing pigment. White ceramic stays dark because there is nothing for the reagent to react with.
!
Hot or acidic food on painted china
Citrus, tomato, coffee, and hot dishes leach more lead than cold food. If the dish glows, do not serve hot or acidic food on it.
✓
Cleared
No glow on the painted decoration after 60 seconds under UV. Re-test after replacing the bottle every 12 months.
composition · 06
Step-by-step · numbered process
Four to six steps with big serif numerals. Used on /how-it-works, /how-to, hero "Three steps to an honest answer."
demo
1
Spray or drip onto the surface.
Drip bottle for dishes and decorations. Spray bottle for walls, dust, soil samples.
2
Wait 30 seconds.
The carrier evaporates. The reagent stays.
3
Shine the UV light. Read the glow.
Green means lead. The intensity tracks roughly with lead concentration. No glow means below the detection floor.
composition · 07
Ribbon banner · lime accent
The sharp lime ribbon used to flag offers, downloads, or value. Use sparingly. Hairline accent rule still applies.
demo$200+ value · free for life
composition · 08
Anchor TOC · sticky in-page jump menu
Sticky monospace strip with section links. Lights up the current section on scroll. Used on long story pages and devices itself.
demo
page content scrolls below the sticky strip.
composition · 09
Photo + caption · framed
Rounded card with image up top and caption below. Caption is real sentences, not lazy alt-text rewrites. Used on cases, products, stories.
demo
photo
The grandmother's plate, 60 seconds after one drop. The painted band glows green at the exact shape of the decoration. The white ceramic underneath does not react.
composition · 10
Tags / chips + source citation block
Two related primitives. Tags categorize and filter; citations close a story page with sourcing.
demo
allpaintdishesbaby foodwatersoil
Sources.
FDA Interim Reference Level for lead in food. fda.gov
Love Eric's Flurospec kits!! I keep finding all of the lead in my late parents house. Thankfully I'm able to chuck most of the items! Highly recommend!!