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by jeff_carr 803 days ago
That EPA site more than obtuse. It's impossible to find a company that has a service that will mail you a container, have you add the water to it, then send it back to them to have them test it.

The closest I found was: https://www.meritlabs.com/sample-bottle-order but there are not even prices and it appears that you have to be more or less an industry expert to even fill out the order form.

Someone should make a startup like 23andMe but for water. Lots of us would pay $500 to have water accurately tested. Especially if the data could be aggregated and made pubic.
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cariaso 803 days ago
https://mytapscore.com/

I've used them and been happy with the report. Happy to share if requested.

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IG_Semmelweiss 803 days ago
Does it report on microplastics too? What about still "unofficial" PFAS
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cariaso 803 days ago
https://gosimplelab.com/ZM7S1O is my report. I found their UI/UX quite good, and very comparable to a 23andMe experience. Pleasantly surprised to say there were zero attempts at ongoing subscription upsells, reengagement, virality etc.

Since my collection was based on a plastic bottle, I doubt microplastics would be part of the report. However the same lab offers other tests with different collection containers and different assays.

https://mytapscore.com/pages/specialized https://mytapscore.com/products/pfas-water-test https://mytapscore.com/products/microplastics-water-test

since the back end testing and reporting is done through gosimplelab you might wish to look at their offerings more directly https://gosimplelab.com/solutions/pfas

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hammock 803 days ago
Doesnt seem to have pfas in any of the standard city water test batteries. I'd also like to see microplastics and medicines (hormones, antibiotics etc) in a test.

I think PFAS is actually hard to test for because you'd have to remove any added fluoride salts etc, and then use spectrometry. And microplastics is expensive to test for because it requires human evaluation through a microscope

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IG_Semmelweiss 802 days ago
thank you
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pinko 803 days ago
A la carte menu: https://mytapscore.com/pages/specialized
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mrfahrenheit 802 days ago
A+
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