As a contractor, I know that no testing is necessary in pre-1978 homes. Who cares? The EPA says that all homes built before 1978 were painted with lead-based paint. You don't need to test unless you want to exclude painted materials that don't contain lead. (A...
As if things weren't complicated enough. There are several ways to measure the amount of lead, and it has been driving me crazy for a while. Not being a scientist myself, I felt compelled to dive into the answer to explain the situation we are up against in layman's...
I just read a fresh article written by a cadre of scientists in Chem Rxiv (an analytical Chemistry magazine) about using an XRF to do dust sampling screening in the field. They state, and I agree, that there has been a long-standing need to be able to do a quick lead...
I was having coffee with my good friend, Professor Uwe Reischl, PhD and MD. The conversation meandered to some of the great inventions and leaps in technology in disease prevention and how the Lumetallix instant lead test could become one of them. He shared my...
The scenario plays out all over the country repeatedly. A child goes in for a checkup and gets a routine finger prick from their pediatrician for lead. The screening test comes back positive, so they repeat the test, and it is positive again. Then, a venous draw is...
According to my sources, getting clearance is even more difficult due to the new lowered threshold for lead dust in federally funded projects or when Lead abatement is happening. It's Like Taking An Open Book Test Wouldn't it be great if you knew that clearance was a...