Are you at risk for lead poisoning?

A free, evidence-based screener that asks ~20 questions about your home, your work, and the items in your kitchen and bathroom. Adapts the questions to your background. Returns an estimated daily lead intake compared to the FDA limit.

~5 minutes · No email required · Doctor handout PDF at the end

NYC DOH · Look Out for Lead

Pure Earth · Global Lead Program

WA State DOH · Imported Products

CDC CLPPP · Foods/Cosmetics/Medicines

The LEAD Group · Australia

Why this matters

The CDC has no safe blood lead level for children. Most exposures are invisible: a chalking window sill, a brass cooking pot, a daily teaspoon of contaminated turmeric, take-home dust on a parent's clothes. The biggest sources are usually not the obvious ones.

How the score works

Each "yes" answer carries a µg/day intake estimate from the published lead-exposure literature. We sum your contributors and compare to the FDA Interim Reference Level (3 µg/day for kids under 6, 8.8 µg/day pregnant/breastfeeding, 12.5 µg/day adults).

Adaptive questions

If you tell us you have South Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, African, East Asian, or other connections, we use the names you'd actually recognize: kohl, sindoor, ghasard, azarcón, greta, paylooah, daw tway, tiro, lozeena, leadlight, instead of generic descriptions.

What you get at the end

An estimated daily intake, the specific items in your environment that contributed to it, and a printable PDF you can hand your doctor or pediatrician asking for a blood lead test, iron studies, and any environmental sampling that makes sense given your answers.