In France we have obligatory 'diagnostic' of house sold, including many thing like asbestos but also lead paint. We use a 20 000€ machine with radioactive mate

In France we have obligatory 'diagnostic' of house sold, including many thing like asbestos but also lead paint. We use a 20 000€ machine with radioactive material to measure the amount of lead, so not everyone can get it but you can definitely ask a technician to do it. Cost around 300€, depends of the house size and he checks every single part of every single room that can contain lead paint. Very tedious. I know that the same laboratory we send asbestos for measurement also did lead measurement. If you got only a few place you are concerned, you could scrape it yourself and sent it to them. Otherwise it's considered that lead in paint is only dangerous when the paint is old and it fall down, so that kids could eat it or if you're repainting the window and you scrub it without mask. To my knowledge, the lead pipe are much more dangerous because there is nothing you can do. It's all city property and even if you don't drink city water, you still get poisoning from factory and restaurant using that water to make food.