Arsenic Quick Water Test Kit 0-500ppb (5 tests)

If you've ever wanted to pretend to be Walter White for 15 minutes well this is your chance. This is a complete kit but it is real chemistry so you have to follow the instructions very carefully. You add the water you're testing to the bottle you see. Then in sequence you add three different powdered chemicals from three different pouches or pillow packs as they call them. For each you pour the powdered chemical into the bottle, screw on the yellow cap, and shake the bottle for certain amount of time and let the bottle sit for a certain amount of time. After all the chemicals have been added and mixed in the bottle, you switch to the white cap to seal it, which is like a shampoo bottle cap with a flip top opening in the center. You then take one of the Arsenic test strips and insert it into the flip top opening and fold it down. You then let the bottle sit undisturbed for 10 minutes as the reaction takes place. You'll see bubbles forming in the bottle and there will be some heat generated my bottle got up to about 90 degrees Fahrenheit. After 10 minutes you remove the test strip and compare the color to the enclosed color chart to see what level of arsenic was in the water sample. Of course read the instructions and follow them carefully. What I'm writing here is just an overview to let you assess whether the procedure is too complicated or is something you'd feel comfortable performing. I trust that it gave me valid result and thatmy tap water contains no arsenic.

The kit and instructions are pretty straight forward. I'm not sure why people are complaining (maybe they had a different kit?).I would have liked to seen that Mercuric Bromide was the testing agent in the description of the kit, as this is very toxic.I still would have bought it, but would have liked to known to take it to my garage and not my kitchen table when it arrived.Just take care using the kit and read the instructions properly, it's pretty straight forward. Safety first!

Time is very important when doing the test. Just follow the instructions carefully and you should be okay. People complaining probably didn't follow the instructions.

I did not have a single test result that I felt comfortable with. I am giving it two stars because it works exactly as advertised but the test is too hard for the average person to perform with confidence. You only have a very short time to review the results against a color card and the yellow hues are so close together that it is very hard to tell which one is the closest match...all the while your test is changing in color so you have to be quick.I think it is a better use of someone's money to have the arsenic test performed by a qualified independent lab...which is what I ended up doing.So, in the end, the product works as advertised, it just isn't suitable for use by a homeowner.

Easy to use. Clear directions. Obvious results. I would use it again.