#AskTamara: How do I find a lab to test my…

Every day recently I seem to get questions from parents looking for a lab to test something.  Since I have not been able to put together a list of labs I wanted to put this out to my community.

• Have you worked with a lab?
• What have they tested for you? (Soil?, baby teeth? food items?)
• Have you found their results reliable and their low-threshold and margin of error acceptable?
• What kind of turn around do they have? (Time-line)
• Would you use them again?
• What are they best at?
• Where are they located?
• Who should someone contact there for lead testing (if the person requesting the testing is – in most cases – a parent of a lead poisoned child?)

Please comment on this post with your answers (and full contact information for the lab you are mentioning) so that I can share this information with parents on Facebook and elsewhere.

Thank you for taking the time!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama