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 (the case management, environmental investigation, and medical follow-up a child who is already exposed requires) 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.

25 free

25 kits, free to start. I will send your program 25 FluoroSpec kits at no cost and no commitment, so your team can put them in the field and see exactly how they work before you decide anything.

What I can do for your program

There are three things I can help you with, and here is what each one means.

The field test, 25 free to start

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. Your inspectors can use it to decide which surfaces are worth the time of an XRF gun or a lab sample, and your crews can use it to confirm lead dust on a wipe when they need proof for an RRP job. To get you started, I will send your program 25 kits free.

An advertising rebate to grow your crews

Buy kits and earn a co-op marketing credit worth 15% of your kit spend, to recruit inspectors and abatement contractors to your area. The workforce shortage is what leaves grant money on the table; this is aimed straight at it.

Help and real support, not just a box of kits

The risk map, the validation work, and the full write-up of how we built it are all free for you to use. I will build a parcel-level map of your own county with you, and I can connect your contractors to training through the Lead and Healthy Housing Conferences. When you call, a real person answers. You are buying from someone who wants your program to work, not just to make a sale.

The Targeting Layer

The statewide map points you to the right blocks. This points you to the right front doors.

The map in our white paper scores risk from the age of the housing and the local poverty level. We can take that same map and sharpen it down to each individual property using the year the home was built. You then match it against your own WIC, Medicaid, or blood-lead screening list, on your own computers, so no family's name is ever sent to us. What you get back is a ranked list of homes to visit, starting with the oldest, highest-risk houses where children actually live.

Your family data never leaves your building. We give you the risk map, and the matching happens entirely on your side. The list tells you where to look first. It is not a diagnosis, so you still send a kit to confirm the actual hazard at the home.

See the Targeting Layer Find your county's risk

What you are actually getting

The First-Pass Lead Screen: A Fiscal-Year Pilot for Lead Programs

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, under an EPA-authorized Low Volume Exemption (TSCA Section 5).

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.

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 0.54 across about 2,156 tracts. Ohio: 0.62 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.

A worked prevention-economics model for your grant file

The case is simple and the source is public. Every IQ point a child loses to lead is worth roughly $40,000 in lost lifetime earnings (Trasande's per-point value, brought to today's dollars), and a lead-exposed child usually loses more than one, while a first-pass screen costs only a few dollars. Spending a little to find the hazard early, before a child is exposed, returns many times its cost. That is the kind of prevention-economics case a grant reviewer can drop straight into the file.

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.

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.

This is not a guess. We checked it against real data.

We compared our risk map against actual measured childhood blood-lead levels in eight states.

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

You can pass all of this to your own epidemiologist to check. The full method, the citations, and the side-by-side state maps are public, so nothing here is something you have to take on our word.

See the 8-state validation Read the white paper

The numbers point in one direction

These come from the public prevention-economics model, and you can 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)

It fits the work your program already does

A first pass before the XRF. Your inspectors can screen a home with the kit first, then point the XRF gun and their time only at the surfaces that lit up. It is a cheaper way to find the spots worth a closer look.

Proof of lead dust for RRP jobs. Your contractors can confirm lead-paint dust on a wipe and document that the work was done to code.

Part of a Healthy Homes kit. It is a test a family can run on their own at home, which makes it an easy item to include in a kit you hand out.

Free kits for high-risk families. It fits what HUD grantees are expected to deliver, and we can size the order to your award.

Start with 25 kits, free

I will send your program 25 FluoroSpec kits at no cost and no commitment, so your team can put them in the field and see how they work before you decide anything. From there we size an order to your award, and HUD grantees can ask about the free-distribution track for high-risk families.

The math that matters: a quick screen keeps you from spending a full certified inspection on a unit that turns out clean, so each grant dollar covers more homes. That is how you grow the primary-prevention side of your grant, finding and addressing lead before a child is ever exposed, instead of only reacting after a blood test comes back high.

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.

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 are on our Safety & Compliance page.

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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