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9" Black Berkey Water Purification Filter Element that fits most Berkey Units.

Specifications :

Weight: 1 pounds
Length: 0"
Width : 0"
Height: 0"

Black Berkey Water Purification Elements are the most powerful gravity filter element currently available. The Black Berkey water purification elements were tested with more than 10,000 times the concentration of pathogens per liter than is required by standard test protocol. With that concentration, you would expect that post filtered water would contain 100,000 or more pathogens per liter, which would be 99.99% reduction, which is the requirement for pathogenic removal. However, the purification elements removed 100% of all pathogens. Absolutely none were detected--even under an electron microscope. The Black Berkey Purification Elements are setting a new standard in water purification.

Filter Cleaning Instructions

How to Clean Your Filters

You can easily refresh the flow rate of the ceramic filter by brushing the outer surface with a soft toothbrush or Scotch-Brite¨ pad under running water. As you brush off the top layer of ceramic and the contaminants, a new layer becomes available. This process can be repeated over and over before the ceramic material is exhausted.

1. Carefully remove the ceramic filter from the upper chamber.
2. Using a soft toothbrush or soft scouring pad (3M Scotch-Brite¨ or similar), scrub the filter under running water or in a bowl of water. Always brush away from threaded mount, taking care not to contaminate the mount. Never use soap or detergents.
3. Replace the filter in the upper chamber. Be sure that sealing washer is properly seated by turning nut until tight.

Note: Rubber gloves are suggested.

BLACK BERKEY® PURIFICATION ELEMENTS

Unfortunately, finding sparkling, wholesome water that tastes good, can be more difficult than you would expect. Water that is supposed to be clean may contain lead, high levels of harmful bacteria, herbicides, pesticides and other chemicals.

These frequently produce unpleasant tastes and odors. Bottled water, which most people consider to be clean, can also contain these same contaminants. Not only that, but bottled water is inconvenient to transport, and it can be very expensive. Many other inferior filters do not remove, or even reduce, pathogenic bacteria, or harmful chemicals and minerals ,and many of them remove the very beneficial minerals that you need to stay healthy.

Black Berkey® Purification Elements are the most powerful gravity filter element currently available. The Black Berkey® purification elements were tested with more than 10,000 times the concentration of pathogens per liter than is required by standard test protocol. With that concentration, you would expect that post filtered water would contain 100,000 or more pathogens per liter, which would be 99.99% reduction, which is the requirement for pathogenic removal. However, the purification elements removed 100% of all pathogens. Absolutely none were detected--even under an electron microscope. The Black Berkey Purification Elements are setting a new standard in water purification.

The powerful Black Berkey® purification elements also remove or reduce pathogenic cysts, parasites, harmful or unwanted chemicals such as herbicides and pesticides, VOC's, detergents, organic solvents, trihalomethanes, cloudiness, silt, sediment, nitrates, nitrites, heavy metals, and foul tastes and odors. Yet they leave in the healthful and beneficial minerals that your body needs.

You can upgrade most gravity filtration units by installing Black Berkey® purification elements, which will greatly improve their ability to remove contaminants.

Black Berkey® purification elements combine the age-old process of micro-porous filtration coupled with modern state-of-the-art technology and the highest quality materials to bring you the finest water purification elements available anywhere. The micro-pores within the self-sterilizing and re-cleanable Black Berkey® purification elements are so small that pathogenic bacteria are simply not able to pass through them. The elements incorporate proprietary "adsorption" media which results from the molecular attraction of substances to the surface of the media. Black Berkey® purification elements also incorporate proprietary "absorbing" media that are impregnated into the micro-porous elements for the IONIC "absorption" of pollutants.

Black Berkey® purification elements incorporate an extremely long "contact period". Other filtration systems rely on water pressure to force water molecules through the filters at 60-90 PSI. These water molecules come into contact with the filter media for a mere fraction of a second. By comparison water molecules, passing through the "Tortuous Path" structure of the Black Berkey® purification elements, are drawn gently by gravity and stay in contact with the media for several minutes allowing the media to be more efficient in capturing contaminates. For example, if you were to hurl 100 steel ball bearings at a large magnet, some would stick but most would bounce off. However, if you were to walk over and gently place the ball bearings on the magnet most, if not all, would adhere. Black Berkey® purification elements fully utilize this principle. This advanced technology was developed, refined, and proven through years of diligent, investigative research and testing performed by water purification specialists, researchers and engineers. The flow rate or time of exposure through the exclusive Black Berkey® purification elements has been calculated to yield the greatest volume removal of toxic chemicals and pathogenic bacteria found in nature and caused by pollution from industry and agriculture.

The Black Berkey® filter formulation has been tested by State & EPA accredited laboratories to exceed EPA & ANSI/NSF (Std. 53) protocol. Tested by the University of Arizona, Spectrum Labs., the Department of Toxicology and Environmental Science, Louisiana State University.

PATHOGENIC BACTERIA CYSTS AND PARASITES

removal to non-detectable levels:
E. coli - Klebsiella - Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - Giardia - Cryptosporidium

TRIHALOMETHANES removed to below detectable limits:

Health effects: muscle & nervous system disorders, cancer
Bromodichloromethane - Bromoform - Chloroform - Dibromochloromethane

RADIOLOGICALS removed to below detectable limits:

Radon 222
INORGANIC MINERALS removed to below detectable limits:

ALSO REMOVES OR REDUCES:

Nitrates, Nitrites, Rust, Silt and Sediment

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

Removed to below detectable limits

• Alachlor
• Atrazine
• Benzene
• Carbofuran
• Carbon Tetrachloride
• Chlorine
• Chlorobenzene
• Chloroform
• 2,4-D
• DBCP
• p-Dichlorobenzene
• o-Dichlorobenzene
• 1, 1-Dichloroethane
• 1, 2-Dichloroethane
• 1, 1-Dichloroethylene
• cis-1, 2-Dichloroethylene
• Trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene
• 1, 2-Dichloropropane
• cis-l,3-Dichloropropylene
• Dinoseb
• Endrin
• Ethylbenzene
• Ethylene Dibromide (EDB)
• Heptachlor
• Heptachlor Epoxide
• Hexachlorobutodiene
• Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
• Lindane, Methoxychlor
• MTBE
• Pentachlorophenol
• Simazine
• Styrene
• 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane
• Tetrachloroethylene
• Toluene
• 2,4,5-TP (Silvex)
• 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
• 1,1,1-trichloroethane
• 1,1,2-trichloroethane
• Trichloroethylene
• o-Xylene
• m-Xylene
• p-Xylene

HEAVY METALS reduced by up to 95%: