Lead Water Test Kit - Home Drinking Water Test, Results in Minutes - Simple 3-Step Procedure, 10 PPB Sensitivity

Bottom line: good for drinking water (not good for industrial wastewater), and it tests to see if your lead is above 10 ppb or not. Simple to use. Good test for houses with plumbing from 1975 or earlier, before they phased out leaded solder for health reasons.GOOD for DRINKING WATER. I can't tell you how hard it was to find a test that is! Most of them are branded as "drinking water test kits" but really they're designed for use with industrial wastewater so none of the testing scales (minimum and maximum amounts) are suitable for drinking water. BUT THIS ONE IS!!! And it's super easy to use - it's like a pregnancy test. Follow the directions: siphon a small amount of water into the included vial, shake it up, wait for it to finish reacting with the chemical in the vial, then put it onto the test strip and wait a few minutes... and finally count the number of lines you can see on the strip.With lead, the SAFE limit is 10 ppb. Note that is parts per BILLION (not ppm parts per MILLION), a lot of other "drinking water test kits" have test strips set to test for ppm instead of ppb because they are expecting INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER which will have extremely high levels of lead. If your drinking water has even 1 ppm of lead in it, then you are already dead. Because 1 ppm = 1000 ppb. And the safe limit for lead is only 10 ppb. This is a big part of the reason why I say most other test kits are NOT SUITABLE for drinking water - but THIS TEST IS.The US EPA sets their limit above the "safe limit" of 10 ppb, at 15 ppb, because it is TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to remove lead below 15 ppb without spending an insane amount of money and electricity to do so; they increased the legal limit from 10 to 15 a few years ago because if they kept the limit at ten then a bunch of city water utilities would have had to shut down due to lead contamination since they lack the equipment and funding necessary to clean it any better than 15 ppb. But the BIOLOGICALLY SAFE limit is 10 ppb or less, and that is the limit that this test kit is set for. Not 15. However, this test is simply an indicator not a sliding scale test. So if you have lead at 9.9 ppb or less, you'll get a negative result from the test. But if your water has lead at 10.1 ppb or more, you'll get a positive result. So all you can say is whether your water is above or below 10 ppb, you cannot be sure exactly what the number really is.

I read the instructions numerous times before doing the water test, followed the instructions to a T and, like many others, got an invalid result. Very frustrating! I definitely do NOT recommend this product!

I needed to test for lead in the water by request of the local water department (They did not provide the test, but will credit our account accordingly). This test was easy and straightforward, has decent previous reviews, and ok price. I feel more than satisfied that I got what I paid for.

The instructions were clear and the test was easy to perform. This test indicated the level of lead for water drawn from my cold water kitchen faucet was below 10 ppb. A prior water sample had been tested using the Safe Home test kit. It indicated the lead level exceeded the 3.8 ppb limit set by that test. Internet searches told me the 10 ppb limited was established by the EPA in December 2020 when it updated the Lead and Copper Rule. Exceeding the 10 ppb trigger level requires that at least some water systems begin service line replacement programs. Also, EPA modeling apparently suggests that lead concentrations in excess of 3.8 ppb could boost some children’s lead exposure above acceptable levels (using tap water to prepare baby formula was highlighted as a potential problem). Hence, the 3.8 ppb level set by the Safe Home Test. Also, an EPA Revised Rule reference guide suggested my water sample should be drawn from a line that had not been used for 6+ hours and that the sample should be taken from the first liter of water drawn from that line when the test was conducted. Apparently, more lead can accumulate in a stagnant water line as time passes. This 10 ppb test has me feeling comfortable continuing to use the water that flows through the galvanized water pipes in my 1949 home. (If I had an infant at home, I would use bottled water if I was preparing formula). A final note: The pipette is inside the sealed foil bag together with the test cassette.

We needed to check the well water at our son's house for lead. When his neighbor's well recently was worked on, they found it tested positive. So we got him this test and in 15 minites were able to get the results. This was fortunately easy to use and to read.