# Zinc Protoporphyrin (ZPP), Workplace

> This test measures the amount of zinc protoporphyrin in your red blood cells, a substance that forms when lead interferes with your body's production of healthy blood components. It is primarily used to monitor long-term exposure to lead in workplace environments, indicating how lead has affected your body over the past few months.

- Labcorp code: 010180
- Category: [Environmental Toxins](https://picardo.health/labs/tests/environmental-toxins.md)
- Sample: blood
- Labcorp turnaround: 2–4 days
- Collection: free at a Labcorp location, or $75.00 at home.
- Without a doctor: yes. People order it themselves, with no doctor's visit or referral.
- Price: shown on the review page its order link opens. Opening it orders nothing.
- Order link: https://app.picardo.health/labs/order?tests=010180&ref=assistant

## About ordering

People order for themselves, with no doctor's visit or referral, and results arrive in their Picardo account. Ordering is open to adults 18 and over in the US, except New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Hawaii and Maine. General health information, not medical advice.