Confirm BioSciences is launching its first ever oral lead test, LEADCONFIRM™ - Professional, designed for home use.  Alpha CHECKPOINT is pleased to distribute these FDA-approved collection kits to the medical community and the public.    

LEADCONFIRM™ - Professional  is a self-collected lab test that can determine the level of lead in an individual’s body. Customers simply swab the inside of their mouth and send the saliva sample to the lab for analysis. Each person will be able to confirm how much lead they have been exposed to and whether or not they should be concerned.  Results are available online via a secure website.  Positive results should be followed up with a physician for further analysis and treatment.

LEADCONFIRM™ - Professional  is an accurate and affordable way to administer the test in the privacy of your own home - no laboratory or hospital visits necessary.  Studies have shown that saliva-based lead testing is as effective as blood testing with a 1:1 correlation.

Product Features and Benefits:
You will receive a comprehensive Lead Report from a CLIA accredited laboratory that uses sophisticated and sensitive Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) Technology.

A fully integrated Customer Service Call Center is available around the clock to assist customers with questions, lead poisoning education, resources, and questions on results.

All inclusive test kit includes: collection device with instructions, shipping fees to laboratory and laboratory processing.  
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        Order now:  Each test kit is priced at $79.99
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Free 6 page PDF guide (click on hyperlink below)

"A Parent's Guide to Lead Poisoning"

(Excerpt from free guide):

Lead is a metal that occurs naturally in the earth’s crust. People have spread it through the environment in many ways. Lead used to be in paint and gasoline. Lead can still be found in contaminated soil, household dust, drinking water, lead-glazed pottery and some metal jewelry.

Lead is a metal and that is poisonous and toxic to people, especially children, when it is ingested. It is no longer used as a gasoline additive (banned since the 1980s), or in lead-based household paint (banned since 1970s), but it does continue to be used in many products, including batteries, ammunition, solder, pipes, pottery glazes,toys, jewelary, printing inks and paint for industrial, military and marine use. And since lead that has contaminated soil from the past use of leaded paint and gasoline does not degrade or break down with time, children continue to be at risk for lead poisoning.

Approximately 310,000 U.S. children aged 1-5 years have blood lead levels greater than 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, the level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated. Lead poisoning can affect nearly every system in the body.

Not all effects of lead poisoning are apparent unless the amount of lead is extremely high, showing up in mild outward signs like headaches, irritability, or abdominal pain, which is easily attributable to other things. Lead can enter your body if you put your hand or another object into your mouth that contains lead dust on it, lead containing paint chips or soil is ingested, or lead dust is breathed in. By continuing to be exposed to the harmful effects of lead poisoning you are risking further, more permanent damage.

Long-term, low level effects of lead poisoning can result in learning or behavioral problems like speech, learning, attention, behavior, and mental processing problems, and chronic high levels of lead exposure can lead to anemia, visible tooth damage, changes in kidney function, and nervous system damage resulting in seizures, comas, and death. Effects of lead poisoning during childhood and, even before that, is the most damaging time, but the cumulative effect of the lead based on the age of exposure, the amount of lead absorbed into the blood, and the length of exposure determines how much damage the effects of lead poisoning can cause.

Effects of lead poisoning by a pregnant mother can