Pass the dust wipe, first try.
A field tool for RRP-certified renovators and abatement crews. See lead-paint dust on the surface before the wipe sample goes to the lab. Clean what you can see. Pass clearance.
EPA cut the floor clearance level in half.
Any detectable lead in dust is now a hazard. The on-site toolkit has not kept up. Wipes go to a lab and come back days later. RRP clearance is a subjective cleaning-verification card. Crews finish the job, the lab fails them, they come back to re-clean.
Fluoro-Spec puts the detection on the surface, in real time. One drop of the reagent. A 365 nm UV penlight. Lead-paint dust glows green. Everything else stays dark.
Ron's crew. Ten passes in a row.
Ron Pike picked up a Fluoro-Spec kit at the 2024 National Lead and Healthy Homes Conference. First job out, his crew passed ten inspections in a row, first time using it. Then they ran out. The next dust wipe failed. He ordered about $300 of Fluoro-Spec the next day.
Seeing individual particles of lead-based paint dust is exceedingly valuable to abatement contractors, especially given the lowering of the dust hazard standards by the EPA. Ron Pike
The bench data.
Ritter (2025). Single-Particle Detection of Lead-Based Paint Dust via Field-Deployable Methylammonium Bromide Fluorescence. Independent bench work at Spirochaete Research Labs, East Setauket, NY.
38
LBP particles
Individual lead-based paint particles, XRF-confirmed, from a pre-1978 home.
100%
visible fluorescence
Every LBP particle ≥ 40 µm fluoresced visibly to the naked eye under MABr + 365 nm UV.
0
false positives
Nine non-lead paint controls. Zero false positives at any size, in any condition.
From the notes: "All LBP particles ≥ 40 µm fluoresced visibly to the naked eye upon contact with MABr and 365 nm UV light, with no false positives observed in the non-lead group."
Who this is for.
- RRP-certified renovators who eat the cost of failed clearance.
- Abatement contractors finishing pre-1978 housing work.
- Public-health and HUD grantee staff training contractor cohorts.
- Facilities and property management running in-house turnover.
- Inspectors and risk assessors who want a field check between samples.
What you use.
One Fluoro-Spec FS-1D kit. About 500 lead-dust-particle chances per bottle. 365 nm UV reader included. Made in New York at Spirochaete Research Labs. Refillable.
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