Are home lead test kits from hardware stores reliable?
• There are a variety of at-home lead testing kits that use Sodium Rhodizonate (turns pink) available at stores such as Home Depot. Government organizations such as HUD and the EPA do not consider these do-it-yourself lead testing kits to be an official or reliable way to evaluate lead contamination. The EPA goes as far as to say that most of these lead testing kits should not be relied on for accurate results. They produce a lot of false positives and false negatives.
