Berkey Water Filters Maker of PFAS Removing Filters Sues the EPA

https://support.berkeywater.com/press-release-berkey-water-filters-sues-the-epa/

by Jimmc414 • 3 years ago

23 18 3 years ago

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Berkey water filters are a scam sold to the paranoid, and the EPA is abusing its powers to go after something thats only harm is separating fools and their money.

Everyone loses.

Jimmc4142• 3 years ago

I don't understand why anyone would be against a gravity driven water filter. The issue is that the EPA is trying to classify it as a pesticide because it contains silver. The EPA should not be creating friction when it comes to water filtration. Seems like there are other important things they could focus on.

throwaway59592• 3 years ago

So do these filters actually work then?

diogenes4• 3 years ago

Looks like FIFRA is to blame. Maybe talk to your senator about it.

ploum• 3 years ago

Why is it a scam? Are those filters not filtrating as advertised?

rngname22• 3 years ago

AFAIK they do not use the same certifications that other major water filter manufacturers use. National Sanitation Foundation certification apparently is the basic standard most use, it's a third party organization.

riscy• 3 years ago

Berkey and its manufacturing arms agreed to a request from the EPA for Berkey filtration products to be identified as “treated devices” (which is a different classification than a pesticide or a pesticide device), because they incorporate silver (a registered pesticide) in their filter media (a common additive in water filters which does not leach into the water) that protects the filter from biological grow through

I mean if it were truly common, wouldn't many other filter manufacturers be affected? I don't understand how they can claim the silver doesn't leach into the water.

Jimmc4142• 3 years ago

https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/etc.5...

Bioaccumulation and toxicity of silver compounds: A review - Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

It looks like the toxicity is highly dependent on upon the form in which silver enters the environment.

882542F3884314B• 3 years ago

Water Filter Guru did some testing of one of Berkeley’s systems and aluminum was leaching into the filtered water.

https://youtu.be/AVZmZwTxnMc?si=OVynjj17zjjQdHu2

nobodyandproud• 3 years ago

Nitpick: “Berkey Water Filters, maker of PFAS-removing filters, sues the EPA”.

Commas and pascal casing only for proper-noun words.

It took me a while to parse the title properly.

altairprime• 3 years ago

HN mods sometimes lowercase Nasa by stylistic guidelines, even though I wish they didn’t, so that would be PFAS and Epa.

But a better headline would be, “Berkey sues EPA over classifying silver-containing water filters are a pesticide”. The PFAS thing is marketing irrelevance to the lawsuit in question, which is over the silver content of the filter.

In any case, you can email the mods and suggest an altered title, and they may well accept it and update the post.

mensetmanusman• 3 years ago

Silver necklaces are pesticides then?

cvccvroomvroom• 3 years ago

No meaningful chemical filtration can happen with any appreciable production rate with gravity alone. I suspect this "filter" is itself a glorified, overpriced Brita taste filter using activated carbon granules that cannot filter anything real.

I'm cleaning and refurbishing by mom's 6-stage RO system on Sunday. Oh the joys of sourcing specialty components.

Berkey Water Filters Maker of PFAS Removing Filters Sues the EPA

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