A free, evidence-based screener that asks about your home, your work, and the items in your kitchen and bathroom. It adapts to your background and skips questions that do not apply to you. You get a clear risk picture, the specific exposure pathways your answers flag, and what to do about each.
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.
Each answer is weighted by how strongly it contributes to lead exposure in the published public-health literature. We combine your answers and benchmark them against FDA Interim Reference Level guidance to place you in a risk level, then explain each flagged pathway and what to do about it.
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.
Your risk level, the specific items in your environment your answers flagged with a plain-language explanation of why each one matters, 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.
These are the sources used to build this screener. Its questions, weightings, and explanations are drawn from publicly available lead-exposure guidance and surveillance literature. No copyrighted text is reproduced. Everything here is paraphrased and synthesized into plain language.
U.S. federal materials (CDC, FDA, EPA) are works of the United States Government and carry no domestic copyright. They are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. State and municipal public-health materials (NYC Health, Washington State Department of Health) are public records published for public-health education and free redistribution. Pure Earth and The LEAD Group Inc. publish their lead-exposure findings openly for non-commercial public-health use and are cited here by attribution. Academic findings are cited by attribution under standard scholarly use. If you believe a source is misattributed or out of date, please flag it through the feedback link in the screener.
Anonymous. No login. We use this to make the screener better for the next person, especially for niche populations and translations.
For lead-poisoning prevention programs, community clinics, school nurses, immigrant-health groups, or any niche population. Pick the questions that apply to your community, name it, optionally add a background image, and we'll generate a single HTML file you can paste on your site, OR we'll host it on detectlead.com for you.
If you picked a non-English language, we recommend trimming the question list to the pathways most relevant to your population. We'll send the spec to Eric (eric@detectlead.com) and follow up about the translation.
