CodeFLUORO30· pre-applied
A reason to keep it on the shelf.
Most decorated ceramics found at a thrift store have lead in the ink. The kit tells you which ones do, in under a minute, so you can keep the rest.
Free U.S. shipping. 30-day refund. Made in New York.
The problem
The ceramics in your kitchen were not randomly painted.
Lead-bearing inks were the industry standard for decorated dishware from the 1950s through the 1980s. Pyrex, Anchor Hocking, Corelle, every department-store brand. You cannot tell by looking. The decoration sits on the outside of the bowl, against the food. The leaching is heaviest where the paint meets acid: tomato sauce, citrus, vinegar, coffee, soda.
The bowl in the reel was not unusual. It was a normal piece from a normal kitchen, which is exactly why it's worth testing yours.
Drag the green knob
It's the same bowl, with the reagent on one side. The decoration is where the lead lives.
2019 · why I built this
Most of the people buying my lead tests already had a lead poisoning diagnosis.
In 2019, when I started making blood testing kits, I had no idea what I was doing. I just knew I was making a better product available at a better price.
When I started talking to the people who were buying them, I found out most of them were buying because their kid had already been exposed to lead. The blood test was confirming damage that was already done.
Once I found out about Fluoro-Spec, I dedicated a lot of time and effort to making that a thing of the past. Nobody needs to be exposed to lead when it's this easy to find it in the environment first.
The mechanism
One drop and about thirty seconds later, lead glows green at the exact shape of the paint.
Same reagent academic labs use to grow perovskite quantum dots, in a bottle that fits in a drawer.
1
Apply
A drop or a quick spray. Methylammonium bromide in isopropanol. Wipes off, does not etch glass or glaze.
2
Wait 30 seconds
The reagent finds surface lead and forms perovskite quantum dots locked to the painted decoration.
3
Hit it with UV
Lead glows bright green at the exact shape of the paint. No lead means no glow. You get a clear yes or no on the surface you actually touch.
4
Decide
Keep what is clean and bag what is hot, then get on with your day.
A real customer · last week
She tested her plate before she put food on it.
The plate had been in the cabinet for years, waiting for the right dinner. She ran the kit on it before that dinner. The gilded center lit up. She wrote up her own case on the site.
Her video
Shot in her kitchen · UV on
Her video, on loop. Same plate, full 31 seconds.
Drag the green knob. The same plate before and after the spray.
What's in the kit
Two bottles, a flashlight, and a color card, all built to fit in a drawer.
- Drip-tip bottlepainted dish edges, mug rims, glaze, decoration
- Spray-tip bottlewalls, sills, faucets, tile, soil, big surfaces
- UV-365nm flashlighttuned to the perovskite emission line
- Color reference cardnon-toxic, read intensity against the chart
- Instructions + lot recordlog what you tested, retest later
FLUORO30 already pre-applied. 35% off.
$75.00
$48.75
Test the house · $48.75
Free U.S. shipping. 30-day refund. Ships from New York.
The kit
The Full Test. Both bottles. Built to cover a kitchen and the rest of the house.
The Full Test · drip + spray
- Drip-tip reagent bottlefor decoration, glaze, mug rims
- Spray-tip reagent bottlefor sills, walls, faucets, soil, tile
- UV-365nm flashlighttuned to the perovskite emission line
- Non-toxic color reference cardto read intensity vs ppb
- Instructions + lot recordso you can retest later
Listed at
$75.00
$75.00
$48.75
FLUORO30 already pre-applied. 35% off, no code to type.
Get the Full Test · $48.75Free U.S. shipping. 30-day refund. Keep the flashlight either way.
If you actually plan to test the whole house
Add a second kit for $30, so you do not run out halfway.
The Full Kit is $75. Add a second one and it drops to $30 automatically at checkout, two full kits for $105. Each bottle is ~120 tests, so two kits cover around 480 surfaces. The per-test math is roughly twenty-two cents.
$105 for two kits
The second-kit price applies automatically at checkout, no code needed. Compared to mailing samples to a lab at $80 each, the kit pays itself back on the first hot bowl you find.
Get the Full Kit · second kit $30 at checkoutIn her own words
"I was able to find lead in the plates I have been waiting more than fifteen years to use."
The deal
Send the kit back if you do not find lead, or if you find lead and we got it wrong. You keep the flashlight either way.
You have thirty days, there's no return shipping, and we don't ask questions. If the chemistry is real and the kit found nothing in your house, that's the best news, and we don't need it back to feel ok about that.
Will it damage the dish I am testing?
No. The reagent wipes off with a paper towel. It does not etch glass, glaze, paint, or metal. We use it on heirloom plates, baby bottles, walls, and soil.
Why a spray and a drip?
The drip puts a tiny amount of reagent on one specific spot. The painted edge of a mug, the rim of a bowl, a glaze line. The spray covers a wide area in one pass. Window sills, garden soil, tile, faucets. Most houses need both.
Is all old decorated Pyrex bad?
Not every piece, but a lot of decorated Pyrex from the 1950s through the 1980s used lead in the printed pattern. The bowl in the reel is one of those. Anchor Hocking, Fire-King, Corelle, and a hundred other brands of the era are in the same category. Test yours instead of guessing.
What if I don't get any glow?
Most surfaces in most houses do not glow. That is the answer you usually want. The kit is reusable. Keep it under the sink for the next garage-sale find, the next imported mug, the next painted toy.
How sensitive is it?
It picks up the surface lead that actually leaches into food at the level a child can dose from. It is not a lab assay. It is a fast yes-or-no on the surface you touch. For exact ppb, the lot data and FDA-IRL dose calculator on this site are downstream tools.
Made by who, made where?
Fluoro-Spec Inc., in New York. The chemistry is methylammonium bromide in isopropanol, the same reagent academic labs use to grow perovskite quantum dots. The bottle ships with the flashlight and a non-toxic color reference card.
Free, no kit needed
Look up your baby's food in the 18,124-lot database.
The lookup runs on Eric's database of baby-food lot tests, the only one of its size that is public. Enter your email and we send the link to the search, the FDA IRL dose calculator, and the lot-recall watch.
Last look
Everything you get in one block, and then the real price.
The Full Test, recapped
- Drip-tip reagent bottle (~120 tests)$25
- Spray-tip reagent bottle (~120 tests)$25
- UV-365nm flashlight$15
- Non-toxic color reference card$5
- Instructions + lot record card$5
- Lot-recall watch on every item you logfree, ongoing
If it did this much, it lists at
$75.00
If all the kit did was find one hot bowl before the kid ate from it tomorrow, the $48.75 is paid back, four hours of worry undone.
$75.00
$48.75
FLUORO30 already pre-applied. 35% off, no code to type.
Test the house · $48.75Free U.S. shipping. 30-day refund. Keep the flashlight either way.
Free · no kit needed
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