What's New
Safe Home re-graded to acceptable
Safe Home moves to acceptable under our certification-scope rule: its state laboratory certification covers the lab, not the home test kit we list.
October 16, 2026
Safe Home is now graded acceptable rather than recommended.
The reason is the same scope rule that moved Clearly Filtered two days earlier: a certification carries the top grade only when it covers the product you are buying. Safe Home's state laboratory certification, from the Indiana Department of Health, covers its laboratory, which is a real fact about where a mail-in sample goes, but it is not a certification of the home screening kit we list on how to test your tap water. The kit is still our pick for a first screen; the profile now describes the certification exactly as far as it reaches.
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