Clean Water Lead Testing is a non-profit, nationally certified testing service for lead, copper, and arsenic in drinking water offered by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina and Clean Water for North Carolina, a grassroots environmental justice organization. Your purchase of low-cost test kits helps to support national drinking water research, assistance to communities and safe drinking water advocacy. You'll get detailed analytical results from our laboratory, and recommendations for protecting your family's health.

All of our test kits for LEAD in water are TWO SAMPLE kits, and include laboratory analysis for both a "first draw" and a "purged" sample. When water sits in leaded or lead-soldered pipes for several hours, the lead concentration can slowly build up. To see if running the water briefly ("purging") will reduce lead to safe levels, a two sample test is needed.

NEW! We now offer a test kit for LEAD in ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREES with faster turnaround of results before the holidays. Click HERE!

NOTE: Orders accepted from U. S. and Canada. Due to a licensing policy, we can not sell Paint, Soil or Dust Test Kits for lead to residents of the State of New York.

Order On-line! You can now order test kits online with your credit card. Click HERE! Sorry, we cannot take phone orders. You can also print out an order form and mail it with your check or money order. Click HERE!

Here's How it Works: When you order and pay for a kit, the instructions and sample containers are mailed within a few days from our laboratory. Simply follow the instructions, use the returnable mailer and address label to return the kit to EQI for certified testing. Detailed lab results and recommendations are mailed to you within 2 weeks of your sample arrival, at no additional cost.

We invite you to browse around to learn more about who we are, where lead can be found in your environment and what you can do about it. We offer test kits that you can use to collect samples from your household and your water for certified analysis of lead and copper (two samples) and arsenic content. We also offer resources with more information about lead poisoning, and solutions you can use right now to help prevent the adverse health effects of lead from threatening your family.

U. S. Centers for Disease Control Offers a New Archive of Lead Recalls! http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/Recalls/default.htm

Durham Officials Downplay Lead Contamination--Raleigh News and Observer, Dec. 23, 2006

Lead Testing by Water Utilities Flawed--Mar.29, 2006

Guilford County, NC Passes Precedent-Setting Lead Poisoning Prevention Ordinance --Nov. 22, 2005

Consumer Product Safety Commission--New Policy on Lead in Children's Jewelry--Feb. 3, 2005

"While deteriorating lead paint in homes is the leading cause of lead poisoning in children, lead exposures from other sources add to the overall risk. To prevent young children from exceeding the 10 ug/dl blood lead level, CPSC seeks to limit exposure to lead from all consumer products, including children’s metal jewelry."