Your jar of baby food was tested for lead. Here is the number.

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California AB 899 forced 36 baby food brands to publish heavy-metal results on every lot they ship. Brands hide the data three clicks deep on portals nobody reads. We mirror all of it (over 18,000 lots, refreshed nightly) and let you search the one jar in your hand in about ten seconds.

Type the lot code on the bottom of the jar. You get lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury for that exact lot, plus what a µg/day dose for a small child looks like at a normal serving. Not ppb. Not "trace amounts found." the actual dose against the FDA interim reference level (2.2 µg lead per day for a child under 7).

How to use it. Grab the jar. Find the lot code (it's printed on the bottom, the lid, or stamped on the back of a pouch). pick your brand below, follow the locator hint, type the code, hit search. The result line is the lot you fed, not an average for the brand.

Built because most AB 899 portals are unusable on purpose. Nine of them require javascript. Four lose the result on page reload. One (gerber) only returns a PDF. We keep ours fast, mobile, and the same shape across every brand.

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Look up your baby food's lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury

Search California's AB 899 disclosure database (over 18,000 lots from 36 brands, refreshed nightly).

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Data: California AB 899 brand disclosures. Action levels: lead 10 ppb, arsenic 10 ppb, cadmium 40 ppb, mercury 10 ppb. Daily reference doses for a child: lead 2.2 µg, arsenic 3.0 µg, cadmium 3.6 µg, mercury 1.0 µg. Full searchable dataset at DetectLead.com/pages/babyfood. Methodology note: some brands report below-detection at higher thresholds, which can affect rankings. This is informational, not medical.

Now you have a number. Here is what to do with it.

The lot scanner tells you what one jar contained on the day it was filled. It does not tell you about the bottle, the plate it lands on, the spoon, the sippy cup, the painted bowl grandma keeps using, the soldered antique pitcher on the shelf, or the dust in the window sills of a house built before 1978. It does not tell you about the formula scoop, the imported teething toy, the plastic teether that smells like fish, the imported spice cabinet.

The lot scanner is one screen. The room your kid eats in is everything else.

"what's in my house was never tested for what I care about."

The one sentence the scanner can't answer for you

I'm Eric, I built this because the people I was selling swabs to already had poisoned kids.

I ran the swab business for a year. I kept getting refunds requested by parents whose kids' lead levels had already come back from the pediatrician. The swab couldn't tell them what dose to expect from a plate, a bottle, a toy. It just told them "lead detected." I went and built the lab-grade test that finds the source.

Fluoro-Spec is a reagent that fluoresces green when it touches lead. You drip it, it glows, you know. Ten seconds per item. ~1,800 tests per kit. The chemistry is methylammonium bromide forming perovskite quantum dots on contact with a lead atom. That's not a marketing line, it's why it works.

Daniella, indianapolis

"my 3-year-old came back at 3.4 µg/dl. We tested every dish, bottle, toy with Fluoro-Spec. Three plates were the source. They were gifts. Four months after we threw them out, she retested undetectable."

Dr. Jessica, atlanta

"I'm an ob/gyn and I thought we'd covered everything. Fluoro-Spec found three sources in our house I hadn't considered (one was a teething toy). both kids retested undetectable eight months after we pulled the items."

Everything you get with the kit

Stacked so it's awkward to say no. Real value tally at the bottom.

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    The drip-tip kit (the actual reagent test)

    15 ml of methylammonium-bromide reagent in a precision drip-tip bottle. ~1,800 individual tests per bottle. Instant green = lead present. Usable on dishes, bottles, sippy cups, painted toys, spice tins, garden soil, paint chips, lead solder, brass keys, antique pewter, anything you can drop one bead onto.

    Value: $50

  • 2

    The L·E·A·D field manual (98 pages, written by me)

    How to test a house room by room without losing a weekend. Which surfaces matter, which don't. How to interpret a glow vs a non-glow. What to do when grandma's plate glows and grandma is in the next room. What counts as a dose vs a trace. Why ppb is the wrong question and µg/day is the right one. Delivered as a PDF the moment your order confirms.

    Value: $39

  • 3

    Your zip-code risk report, emailed

    We pull census + EPA + abandoned-industrial + pre-1978 housing-stock data for your zip and email you the one-page risk profile for your block. Soil contamination index, water-system flags, housing-age distribution. So you know where to test first.

    Value: $25

  • 4

    Refill voucher (one free 15 ml reagent refill)

    When you finish the first bottle (most people stretch it across 4-6 months of testing), email refill@fluorospect.com with your order number and we ship a free refill. No questions. ~1,800 more tests on us.

    Value: $40

  • 5

    Bottle-broke replacement credit

    Dropped it on a tile floor (it happens). photo of the broken bottle to support@DetectLead.com, we mail a new one. No charge, no shipping, no return needed.

    Value: $50

  • 6

    The interview library

    Long-form video conversations with Daniella, dr. Jessica, dr. Tamara Rubin (children's environmental health), and four other parents who tested their houses. Unedited. what worked, what they wasted time on, the surprise sources. Private link with the kit.

    Value: $79

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    The lead-safety Download Pack (6 assets)

    The lot-code reference card (printed, fridge-ready). the dish-checker shortlist. The every-room test sheet. The babyfood brand-tier scorecard. The µg/day quick-math card. The pediatrician-conversation script. All six as printable pdfs.

    Value: $24

Total stacked value if you bought every piece on its own:

$307

If all this did was identify the one dish in your kitchen leaching lead into your kid's food, would it be worth it?

If all this did was tell you the plate grandma serves on is safe, would it be worth it?

If all this did was save one trip to a $4,000 abatement quote you didn't need, would it be worth it?

So here is the price.

Not $307. Not $150. Not $99.

$307 stacked

$50.00

The drip-tip kit + all six bonuses, shipped today

get the kit + the stack →

Testing more than one kid's worth of stuff? Upgrade to the Full Kit ($75) for double reagent and a second bottle. Testing a whole extended family or a daycare? The Double Kit is $99.

The anti-guarantee.

365 days, full refund, no return required. The reagent is a consumable. You can't "return" it once you've opened it (chemistry, not policy). so we don't ask you to. If at any point in the year after you buy, the kit didn't do what you needed, email support@DetectLead.com from the address on your order. We refund the full purchase. You keep the bottle, the manual, the pdfs, the videos.

The only way you lose money on this is if you don't buy it and the source stays in your kitchen for another year.

If a pediatrician already called with an elevated blood lead level, do not click the buy button. Call us first at 631-461-1838. there's a triage script we use for confirmed elevated BLL cases (which sources to test first, in what order, and which to skip). that call is free and is the highest-value thing we do.

Ps. If you found a hot lot in the scanner above, screenshot it. Share with one other parent before you close this tab. That's how this database stays alive. The full searchable database lives here if you want to search by brand instead.