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Some of what you inherited is leaded. This shows you which pieces.
Vintage Pyrex, hand painted dishes, old glazed ceramics. The lead is usually in the painted decoration, and you cannot tell by looking at it. Spray a little reagent on the design, hold the UV light over it, and the leaded paint lights up green in a few seconds.
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Real test, no edits. A tan floral vintage Pyrex bowl under UV light. The bright green is the lead in the decoration reacting to the reagent. Plain glass stays dark.
Why your relative's kitchen is full of this
You are triaging a whole life. A lot of it predates anyone caring about lead.
For most of the 1900s, lead went into the bright paint and printed patterns on everyday dishware. The cheerful Pyrex mixing bowls, the gold trimmed plates, the hand painted bowl someone got as a wedding gift. It does not wear a warning label, and one piece can test high while the piece next to it tests clean.
This is not rare. Decorated dishware made before the 1990s used lead in the paint and glaze far more often than people expect, and the brighter the color the more likely it is. Reds, oranges, yellows and gold trim are the usual suspects. The vintage Pyrex everyone collects is one of the most common positives there is. If you inherited a cabinet of it, odds are something in there lights up.
How it works
You run it at the kitchen table in about a minute.
1
Spray the design
A small amount of reagent on the painted or printed decoration you want to check.
2
Shine the UV light
The light is in the kit. Hold it over the wet spot in a dim room.
3
Leaded paint glows green
If there is lead in that decoration, it lights up. Lead free glass and paint stay dark. Wipe it off when you are done.
It is a fast visual screen you run yourself, not a lab number. It shows you where the lead is so you know which pieces to be careful with.
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- The reagent that makes leaded paint fluoresce
- The UV light, so nothing else to buy
- Enough to check a whole cabinet of inherited pieces
- Works on dishes, Pyrex, ceramics and painted decor
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If you want to keep going
Dishes are one door. Here's the rest of the trail.
If you actually want to protect your household, lead hides in more than the cabinet. Pick the one that's you and start there. Free, no kit required.
Have kids?
Run the lead poisoning risk screener. A couple minutes, tells you where your family's real exposure is.
Start here โLive in an older house?
Paint, dust and soil are the big ones. Start with the old-house first test and what to check first.
Start here โInherited a cabinet of dishes?
Look your pattern up by name before you spray. See what's already been tested.
Look it up โYou can honor someone without keeping everything they owned.
And you can keep the pieces that actually mean something without second guessing them. Test the ones you would really use. Display or pass on the rest with a clear head.
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