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.
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.
Tell us what to fix
Anonymous. No login. We use this to make the screener better for the next person — especially for niche populations and translations.
Build your own version
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.