New Hampshire DHHS just bought 100 kits for a FY2026 pilot

Find the lead before the child does.

Protect more children from lead in your jurisdiction at the lowest cost per child, and reach the high-risk neighborhoods you already know about but cannot afford to inspect door to door. The map shows where risk concentrates across every tract in your state, including the tracts where no public blood-lead data exists. The test confirms the actual hazard on the spot, before a child is exposed, for a fraction of the cost of an XRF visit or a confirmed-case workup. You move spending from reactive (roughly $2,000 per confirmed elevated case in case management, environmental investigation, and medical follow-up) to preventive (a screen that costs dollars). The outcome you are buying is not a product. It is more hazards found per dollar, earlier in the timeline, in the places that need it most.

$2,000
The 100-Kit Pilot. The exact thing New Hampshire bought. 100 FluoroSpec kits, sized to commit with leftover fiscal-year money before it expires. Small enough to approve without a procurement fight.

What you are actually getting

The First-Pass Lead Screen: A Fiscal-Year Pilot for Lead Programs
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FluoroSpec field kits (the core unit)
Each kit is a complete first-pass screen: methylammonium bromide reagent that fluoresces bright green on lead-based-paint dust under 365nm UV, a rechargeable 365nm flashlight, a non-toxic fluorescent reference card to confirm the lamp is working, and a custom-printed carry bag. No wet chemistry, no lab, no sample shipping. A staffer or a family can run it in minutes. Manufactured by Fluoro-Spec Inc., a Delaware C-corp that is EPA-permitted to manufacture and sell.
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The validated national risk map, free and already live
detectlead.com/lead-risk-map scores all 3,222 counties and 83,388 census tracts from public Census ACS 2022 data (housing age table B25034 weighting pre-1940 and pre-1950 stock, plus poverty from S1701), z-scored, combined, and percentile-ranked per tract. This is the Washington State DOH method that EPA itself used. It tells your program where to send kits first. There is no charge and no login.
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Independent validation you can hand to your epidemiologist
We held the predicted map against real measured childhood blood-lead, tract by tract, in three states. Michigan: Spearman 0.66 across about 2,156 tracts. Ohio: 0.65 across about 2,534 tracts. Wisconsin: 0.70 across 208 metro-Milwaukee tracts, pulled fully automatically from the state's open ArcGIS API. That matches the strength of the peer-reviewed EPA hotspots analysis (Zartarian et al., Environmental Science and Technology, 2024, DOI 10.1021/acs.est.3c07881), which validated the same housing-plus-poverty indices against roughly 4.2 million children's blood tests at Cohen's kappa 0.49 to 0.63. Side-by-side pages: detectlead.com/lead-validation-michigan, /lead-validation-ohio, /lead-validation-wisconsin.
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A worked prevention-economics model for your grant file
The full equations are public and you can run them with your own numbers. At 10,000 kits and $50 per kit: $500k cost, about 1,080 hazards found, about 594 children spared exposure, about $13.1M in avoided lifetime harm, a 26 to 1 return, and a break-even of $842 per child against the $22,000 discounted-lifetime-earnings value per child (the Lanphear and Trasande lineage). Refilled kits drive unit cost toward $5 and push the return past 200 to 1. This is the kind of cost-benefit a HUD LHRD or LBPHC deliverable, or a CLPP budget justification, is built on.
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Fit for the use cases you already run
Pre-screening for health-department inspectors so XRF time goes where it counts. RRP dust-wipe verification for contractors. A component in a homeowner cleaning kit. Free distribution to high-risk families as a HUD grantee deliverable. The kit slots into existing workflows rather than asking you to build a new one.
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Honest scope, stated up front
The map predicts risk, not any individual child's poisoning. The kit is a screening tool, not a diagnosis. A positive result tells you to act and investigate; it does not replace confirmatory testing where your protocol requires it. We would rather you buy this knowing exactly what it is and is not. There is no known level of lead exposure that is without risk, which is the entire reason a cheap first-pass screen belongs in front of the expensive instruments.

It is not a hunch. It is validated.

Our risk map was checked against real measured childhood blood lead in eight states.
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states validated against measured blood lead
0.48-0.77
rank correlation, predicted vs measured
4.2M
children's blood tests behind the EPA method anchor

Hand it to your epidemiologist. The full method, citations, and the side-by-side state maps are public.

See the 8-state validation Read the white paper

The math runs one way

From the public prevention-economics model. Run it with your own numbers.
26 : 1
return at a 10,000-kit program, lifetime benefit vs cost
$842
break-even per child protected (every estimate of a child's value is far higher)
~$2,000
what each confirmed lead case costs you in reactive spend, prevented up front

Built for the work you already do

Inspector pre-screen. Point your XRF and your staff time where the kit already lit up. Cheaper first pass.
Contractor RRP proof. Confirm lead-paint dust on a wipe, document compliance.
Healthy Homes kit component. A test families can run themselves, a clean deliverable line.
Free distribution to high-risk families. Matches HUD grantee deliverables, sized to your award.

Government pricing

Pilot, 100 kits
$5,000
$50 / kit
250 kits
$8,750
$35 / kit
500 kits
$12,500
$25 / kit

HUD grantees and programs distributing to high-risk families free of charge, ask about the free-distribution track sized to your award.

The guarantee

A government buyer cannot accept a consumer money-back gimmick, so the guarantee is tied to an objective, testable spec, not to satisfaction. Every kit is warranted to perform to its stated function: the reagent fluoresces on the certified lead-paint reference standard and the 365nm lamp meets spec out of the box. Any unit that fails that check is replaced at no cost, or refunded, your choice, on a simple report with no return-shipping burden on your staff. For the pilot specifically: run the 100 kits in the field. If your team's written assessment is that they did not earn a place in your workflow, we refund the pilot in full. You are risking a small, defined dollar amount of year-end money against a documented decision, and we carry the downside if the kits do not hold up.

The fiscal year flips June 30.

The constraint is real and on the calendar, not manufactured. The federal fiscal year flips June 30. FY2026 money that is not committed is lost, and use-it-or-lose-it dollars are exactly what a small,

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