METALLOPATHY Evidence on heavy metals in people

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Testing

How do I test food/soil for heavy metals at home?

This corpus does not contain a validated at-home method for measuring metals in food or soil, and it does not contain performance data for a consumer kit. No detection limit, false-result rate, or pass-fail number is stated, because none was verified. Laboratory methods such as ICP-MS are the methods named by FDA for cobalt and chromium in blood, which is a different sample.

What is not available

Questions about testing water, soil, and food at home are in the question set. The saved sources do not evaluate a home kit. Naming a product would go beyond those sources. Certified laboratory testing is a different activity from a home test, and this page does not list laboratories.

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Sources

  1. FDA metal-ion testing methods for cobalt and chromium in whole blood (a clinical specimen, not food or soil)

Heavy Metal Index

Heavy Metal Index: ICP-MS testing. This Heavy Metal Index URL returned HTTP 200 on 15 October 2026. Figures on this page are not copied from that index. They come from the sources named above.

What's safe to buy

The Heavy Metal Tested and Certified public register listed no licensees on 15 October 2026. That page reported 0 certified brands and 0 certified products, and it stated that no brand has completed the three-lot baseline. A specimen layout on the register is an illustration, not a licensee. This page does not name or rank any brand.

The program states that certification is a measurement of a product against a published limit, not a statement that the product is safe. If a licensee is later listed for this category, it will be on the register.

This page summarizes cited documents. It does not diagnose or prescribe. Reviewed 15 October 2026.