Safe Home safety review
Founded 1982 · Madison, Indiana · Part of Environmental Laboratories, Inc.
Our verdict
AcceptableThis is the one brand on our water page whose central claim you can look up on a government register in about a minute, and it holds. Safe Home's kits say samples are analyzed at an "EPA Certified Lab," which is loose wording — EPA does not certify laboratories itself; under the Safe Drinking Water Act it delegates that to states. Indiana does the certifying here, and the Indiana Department of Health's own published list of certified drinking water laboratories, revised 2025-11-07, includes Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Madison, 635 Green Road, laboratory IDs M-39-01 and C-39-01, certified for a long list of analytes that explicitly includes lead — which is exactly what the kit we recommend tests for. The lab and the brand are the same family-owned company, founded 1982, so nothing is subcontracted out of view. Be precise about what the register certifies, though: it certifies the LABORATORY, not the DIY kit on our page, and the kit we list is an at-home screening test with the lab analysis as a separate, optional mail-in step. That is why we grade it acceptable rather than recommended: the certification covers the lab, not the kit we list. We found no recall, no Proposition 65 notice and no docketed case naming the company as of September 2026.
- Best for
- A parent who wants a first screening result at home for lead, from a brand whose own laboratory — the confirmatory mail-in option — is on Indiana's certified drinking-water lab list.
- Skip if
- You need a defensible laboratory number today: the DIY step is a screen, and the lab confirmation is a separate mail-in with a several-day turnaround.
Reviewed by Dan Golden · October 2026
Company facts
- What they make
- water, water testing, home environment
- Where it's made
- Safe Home is a consumer test-kit brand of Environmental Laboratories, Inc. (ELI), which also trades as EnviroTestKits and Safe Home Test Kits. ELI was founded in 1982 by Chris Myers and remains owned by him and his wife; it is based at 635 Green Road, Madison, Indiana. The point that matters for this product is that the brand and the laboratory are the same company — when a Safe Home in-lab kit says the sample is analyzed at an accredited laboratory, that laboratory is ELI's own facility in Madison, not a subcontractor.
The company behind Environmental Laboratories, Inc. (dba Safe Home Test Kits)
- Founded
- 1983
- Headquarters
- Madison, Indiana
- Ownership
- Independent
No outside owner who can reset the standards.
Safety breakdown
Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Madison appears on the Indiana Department of Health's "Indiana Certified Drinking Water Laboratories" list (revised 11/7/2025) under laboratory IDs M-39-01 (microbiology) and C-39-01 (chemistry), in the section for labs that accept samples from the public, certified for total coliform/E. coli, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, selenium, thallium, mercury, fluoride, nitrate, nitrite, cyanide, herbicides, TTHMs, the regulated VOCs and vinyl chloride, HAA5s, pesticides and miscellaneous SOCs. Zero CPSC recall records. Zero California Proposition 65 60-day notices naming Environmental Laboratories as an alleged violator, established by filtering the AG register's own CSV export on the Alleged Violator(s) column. No docketed case names the company or the brand: CourtListener returns zero results for "Safe Home Test Kits".
Safe Home on SafeMama
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Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Madison appears on the Indiana Department of Health's "Indiana Certified Drinking Water Laboratories" list (revised 11/7/2025) under laboratory IDs M-39-01 (microbiology) and C-39-01 (chemistry), in the section for labs that accept samples from the public, certified for total coliform/E. coli, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, selenium, thallium, mercury, fluoride, nitrate, nitrite, cyanide, herbicides, TTHMs, the regulated VOCs and vinyl chloride, HAA5s, pesticides and miscellaneous SOCs. Zero CPSC recall records. Zero California Proposition 65 60-day notices naming Environmental Laboratories as an alleged violator, established by filtering the AG register's own CSV export on the Alleged Violator(s) column. No docketed case names the company or the brand: CourtListener returns zero results for "Safe Home Test Kits".
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Where this brand appears
- CitedHow to test your tap waterSafe Home DIY Lead in Drinking Water Combo Test Kit- (2 Pack) | DIY Detection to 4 PPB in 5-Minutes with 3 Levels of Test Results + Optional Testing at Our EPA-Certified Lab · updated Nov 2026
- ListedBest water filters, by what you are actually filteringSafe Home DIY Lead in Drinking Water Combo Test Kit- (2 Pack) | DIY Detection to 4 PPB in 5-Minutes with 3 Levels of Test Results + Optional Testing at Our EPA-Certified Lab · updated Nov 2026
- ListedThe water filter cheat sheetSafe Home DIY Lead in Drinking Water Combo Test Kit- (2 Pack) | DIY Detection to 4 PPB in 5-Minutes with 3 Levels of Test Results + Optional Testing at Our EPA-Certified Lab · updated Oct 2026
Safe Home products we track
Safe Home DIY Lead in Drinking Water Combo Test Kit- (1 Pack) | DIY Detection to 4 PPB in 5-Minutes with 3 Levels of Test Results + Optional Testing at Our EPA-Certified Lab
Manufacturer statement checked · source
We couldn't confirm a live listing for this exact product — this opens a filtered search of merchants for the same model.
Recall history
No recalls found. We checked CPSC and FDA recall databases as of October 16, 2026 and found no recalls for this brand. Recall databases update continuously — if you own a recalled product, the official notice is always the source to follow.