Healthy Homes & Gardens

It’s that time of the year again, when the Christmas Trees are emerging and the decorations are being taken out of the garage and dusted...

Lead can be found in even the most unexpected objects in your house. Our team at Healthy Homes and Gardens visited a home to test for...

Christmas lunch table items, antique or imported gifts. What could be concealing lead this Christmas in your home? ON THE CHRISTMAS TABLE...

You use your bathroom every day, but do you ever think twice about what you and your family are bathing in? We become complacent within...

Our soil sampling is a great way to ensure your gardens have the healthiest of soils to thrive. But how does it work? Are the results...

Over the years people have collected and held onto an array of antiques, including cutlery, tea sets, ornaments, serving ware and many...

Toy cars, everybody has them. Most of us will remember playing with Matchbox cars back in the day

Looking at this image, can you spot the items with hazardous contaminant levels? We couldn’t, so we put our pXRF to work and found out.

Keeping fish often means buying accessories to create a happy living environment. This month we discovered not all accessories are made equa

Coles Mini Shops are put to the test against our restriction of hazardous substances calibration to see what is contained within.

Known as "the poor man's silver," pewter has been used since the Bronze Age.Making a comeback in popularity, how safe is it in domestic use?

During a recent lead in paint survey, we analysed a very interesting home built in the 1930's. The results were very surprising!

Very small amounts of lead are known to cause serious long term health effects. Young children are particularly vulnerable to exposure...

Australian parents have been warned of the potential risks of giving children tap water after a study uncovered widespread lead...