Verified Third-Party Test Results
What Does BOROUX Filter?
Discover the long list of contaminants that BOROUX effectively filters and take an in-depth look at the meticulous substance reduction testing.
Important note for California and Iowa customers:
To comply with state regulations, BOROUX filters are only for use to reduce chlorine, chloramine, microplastics, and nominal Particulate Class I in California and Iowa.
The contaminants listed below this warning do not pertain to our California and Iowa compliant products.
BOROUX Filters These Contaminants:
- Alachlor
- Atenolol
- Atrazine
- BPA
- Bromochloroacetonitrile
- Bromodichloromethane
- Bromoform
- Cadmium
- Carbamazepine
- Carbofuran
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Chloramine
- Chlorodibomomethane
- Chlorine
- Chlorobenzene
- Chloroform
- Chloropricin
- Chromium
- cis-1,2-dichloroethylene
- cis-1,3-dichloropropylene
- Deet
- Dibromoacetonitrile
- Dibromochloropropane
- Dichloroacetonitrile
- Endrin
- Estrone
- Ethylbenzene
- Ethylene dibromide
- Glyphosate
- Gross Beta (cesium)
- Haloacetonitrile
- Haloketones
- Heptachlor
- Heptachlor epoxide
- Hexachlorobutadiene
- Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
- Ibuprofen
- Lead
- Lindane
- Linuron
- Meprobamate
- Mercury
- Metolachlor
- Methoxychlor
- Naproxen
- Nonylphenol
- Pentachlorophenol
- P-dichlorobenzene
- PFOA
- PFOS
- PFNA
- PFHxS
- PFHpA
- PFBS
- PFDA
- Phenytoin
- O-dichlorobenzene
- Simazine
- TCEP
- TCCPP
- Tetrachloroethylene
- Toluene
- Trans-1,2-dichloroethylene
- Tribromoacetic acid
- Trichloroacetonitrile
- Trichloroethylene
- Trihalomethanes
- Trimethoprim
- Uranium
- Xylenes
- 1,2-dichloroethane
- 1,2-dichloropropane
- 1,1-dichloroethylene
- 1,1-dichloro-2-propane
- 1,1,1-trichloro-2-propane
- 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
- 2,4-D
- 2,4,5-TP
- 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
- 1,1,1-trichloroethane
- 1,1,2-trichloroethane
Certified for Your Family’s Health
Independently tested to meet NSF/ANSI/CAN standards, the highest level of trust in water filtration.
Lead-Free Guarantee (NSF/ANSI/CAN 372)
Certified lead-free materials to keep your water worry-free.
Verified Performance
Certified to meet strict safety and quality standards.
Third-Party Verified Test Results
BOROUX foundation filters have been tested by IAPMO R&T Lab NJ, an ISO/IEC 17025 recognized laboratory.
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Categories of Contaminants
Grouped by type with an explanation of the common uses and potential health effects.
Gain a deeper understanding of the types of chemicals, compounds, and naturally occurring substances that BOROUX filters. Rest assured your filters are minimizing harmful toxins.
It's one thing to list all the chemicals and compounds, and it's another thing to understand what they are, how they're used, and the potential problems they cause. Knowing more about the contaminants allows you to address the specific health concerns associated with these pollutants. BOROUX water filter systems mitigate potential hazards, ensuring that drinking water is the highest quality.
The list of contaminants is what has been tested so far. Potentially the filters effectively reduce more contaminants, but without concrete test data, we cannot say for sure. Testing is ongoing, which means we're still collecting data on some of these contaminants, and we're conducting new tests.
Testing is conducted in an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited laboratory, ensuring high laboratory quality standards. Test conditions adhere to NSF/ANSI Standards 42, 53, and 401, specifying the influent challenge concentration and maximum allowable effluent concentration. Where these standards lack parameters, such as for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), chloroform is used as a surrogate chemical, representing a worst-case scenario.
Tested by IAPMO R&T Lab NJ, an ISO/IEC 17025 recognized laboratory. Each filter can last for up to 6,000 gallons for specific contaminants as verified by third-party lab data.
BOROUX foundation filters have also been NSF/ANSI/CAN 372 certified by the Water Quality Association (WQA).
Heavy Metal Contaminants removed up to 99.36%*
Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a high density and can be toxic even at low concentrations. They often originate from industrial processes, mining, and natural geological sources.
Potential Health Risks: Heavy metal toxicity can lower energy levels, inhibit brain function, lungs, damage the kidneys, liver, blood composition and other important organs. For example, exposure to lead can cause neurodevelopmental issues, leading to learning disabilities and decreased IQ in children.
Cadmium
Industrially used in batteries, alloys, coatings (electroplating), solar cells, plastic stabilizers, and pigments. Cadmium is also used in nuclear reactors where it acts as a neutron absorber.
Cesium (Gross Beta)
Used in manufacturing optical glasses and other optical instruments. It is also used to remove oxygen from light bulbs and vacuum tubes.
Chromium
Used to harden steel, manufacture stainless steel, and produce several alloys. Chromium plating can be used to give a polished mirror finish to steel.
Lead
Used in a wide variety of products found in and around our homes, including paint, ceramics, pipes and plumbing materials, solders, gasoline, batteries, ammunition, and cosmetics.
Mercury
Used in older thermometers, fluorescent light bulbs, and some electrical switches.
Uranium
Used as fuel for nuclear power plants and the nuclear reactors that run naval ships and submarines. It can also be used in nuclear weapons.
Pharmaceutical Contaminants removed up to 99.5%*
Pharmaceutical compounds are medications and drugs that can enter water sources through various routes, including human and animal excretion, improper disposal, and wastewater treatment plant effluent. They can include prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and personal care products.
Potential Health Risks: Expired medicines are often disposed of incorrectly leading to unknown exposure of the type and quantity of pharmaceuticals. Unintended and interactive reactions may occur. Some pharmaceuticals bioaccumulate in humans, which could decrease fertility and cause breast and testosterone cancers, and increase the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Atenolol
Used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure.
Carbamazepine
Used to treat certain types of seizures (eg, partial seizures, tonic-clonic seizures) and bipolar disorder. It is also used to relieve pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).
Estrone
A female sex hormone. The weakest type of estrogen, it's typically higher after menopause.
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Ibuprofen
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to treat mild to moderate pain.
Meprobamate
A sedative used for anxiety and insomnia first made available in the 1950s when it became very popular, but which is now rarely used.
Naproxen
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to relieve symptoms of arthritis (eg, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or juvenile arthritis) such as inflammation, swelling, stiffness, and joint pain.
Phenytoin
A medication used in the management and treatment of epilepsy, generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and complex partial seizures. It is in the anticonvulsants class of drugs.
Trichloroacetic acid
Can be used as a caustic agent on the skin or mucous membranes to treat local lesions and for the treatment of various dermatological diseases. There are reports of its use in removing tattoos, treating genital warts, and in dermal peeling.
Trimethoprim
An antibiotic. It's used to treat and prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs), such as cystitis. Occasionally, trimethoprim is used to treat other types of infections, such as chest infections and acne.
Pesticides, Herbicides, Insecticides removed up to 99.95%*
These are chemical substances used in agriculture, landscaping, and pest control to kill, repel, or otherwise manage pests, weeds, and insects.
Potential Health Risks: Exposure to pesticides can cause skin or eye irritation, cancer, nervous system dysfunction, and hormone imbalance. For example, atrazine can affect health by altering the way that the reproductive system works, increasing in the risk of pre-term delivery.
Alachlor
A chloroacetanilide type herbicide with restricted usage for preemergent control of grasses and broadleaf weeds.
Atrazine
A chlorinated triazine systemic herbicide that is used to selectively control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds before they emerge.
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Bromochloroacetonitrile
A by-product of trichloroacetic acid production, which is used in the manufacture of plastics, herbicides, and pesticides.
Carbofuran
A systemic, broad spectrum N-methyl carbamate insecticide and nematicide registered for control of soil and foliar pests on a variety of field, fruit, and vegetable crops.
Chlorodibromomethane
A chemical intermediate in the manufacture of fire extinguishing agents, aerosol propellants, refrigerants, and pesticides.
DEET
(N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) the active ingredient in many repellent products. It is widely used to repel biting bugs.
Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
A pesticide used against nematodes (roundworms or threadworms) that damage pineapples, bananas and other tropical fruits.
Dinoseb
An herbicide that was once widely used for weed-control when producing crops like soybeans, vegetables, fruits and nuts, or citrus.
Endrin
Used as a pesticide to control insects, rodents, and birds.
Ethylene dibromide (edb)
Used to control insects in stored products, on fruits and vegetables, in flour mills, and in soil. EDB was also used as an ingredient in gasoline.
Glyphosate
An herbicide that kills weeds and grasses by blocking an enzyme essential for plant growth. It's the active ingredient in many weed killer products, such as Roundup.
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Heptachlor
Used as a soil and seed treatment and for termite control.
Heptachlor epoxide
Used in the past for killing insects in homes, buildings, and on food crops.
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
An organochlorine compound that is used as a raw material in manufacturing other chemicals, including pesticides, flame retardants, resins, dyes, pharmaceuticals, plastics, etc.
Lindane
Used as an insecticide on fruit and vegetable crops, for seed treatment, in forestry, and for livestock and pet treatment.
Linuron
(3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1-methoxy-1-methylurea) a phenylurea herbicide that is used to control the growth of grass and weeds.
Methoxychlor
Used as an insecticide against flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, chiggers, and a wide variety of other insects.
Metolachlor
One of the widely used herbicides on corn in Minnesota, and is also labeled for use on soybeans, potatoes, sugar beets, sunflowers, and tomatoes.
p-Dichlorobenzene (PDCB)
Used as a repellant against snakes, rats, mice, squirrels, bats and insects, as a deodorizer for toilets, urinals and diaper pails, as an insecticidal fumigant, and as an air freshener.
Simazine
An herbicide of the triazine class. The compound is used to control broad-leaved weeds and annual grasses.
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene
Used in heat transfer fluids, as a dielectric fluid, and in making chemicals, insecticides and fungicides.
1, 3-dichloropropene
A Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP) used to kill nematodes, insects, and weeds on potatoes, flower bulbs and other vegetable and orchard crops.
1,4-Dichlorobenzene
Used as a fumigant to control mildew and mold, and as an insecticide.
2,4-D
A widely used herbicide that controls broadleaf weeds. It is used in many places including turf, lawns, rights-of-way, aquatic sites, forestry sites, and a variety of field, fruit and vegetable crops.
2,4,5-TP (silvex)
A postemergence herbicide for control of woody plants, and broadleaf herbaceous weeds in rice and bluegrass turf, in sugarcane, in rangeland improvement programs, on lawns.
Plastic and Industrial Contaminants Removed up to 99.55%*
This category encompasses contaminants associated with plastic production and industrial processes. It may include by-products of plastic manufacturing as well as other industrial chemicals and pollutants. Often times these are chemicals added to plastics to improve flexibility, durability, and resilience.
Potential Health Risks: Exposure to these harmful chemicals is linked to adverse adverse health outcomes such as; cancers, birth defects, impaired immunity, endocrine disruption, developmental and reproductive effects. For example, ingesting or swallowing high amounts of chlorine, can irritate the digestive tract leading to nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
Benzene
A chemical that is naturally produced by volcanoes and forest fires. However, benzene is more commonly used in industrial processes to make plastics, resins, synthetic fibers, lubricants, dyes, and more.
Bisphenol A (BPA)
Used to manufacture polycarbonate plastics. This type of plastic is used to make some types of beverage containers, compact disks, plastic dinnerware, impact-resistant safety equipment, automobile parts, and toys.
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Bromochloroacetonitrile
Chemical by-products of chlorine disinfection of drinking water.
Bromoform
Used in making organic chemicals, as a solvent for waxes, greases, and oils, and as a flotation agent in mineral separation.
Bromodichloromethane
Formerly used as a flame retardant, and a solvent for fats and waxes.
Carbon tetrachloride
A solvent in the rubber industry. As a cleansing agent in the dry cleaning industry. As a solvent in the chemical and drug industry.
cis-1,2-dichloroethylene
Used to produce solvents and in chemical mixtures.
Chloramine
A disinfectant used to treat drinking water. It is formed by mixing chlorine with ammonia.
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Chlorine
Used to disinfect water and is part of the sanitation process for sewage and industrial waste. During the production of paper and cloth, chlorine is used as a bleaching agent. It is also used in cleaning products, including household bleach which is chlorine dissolved in water.
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Chlorodibromomethane
Used as a chemical intermediate in the manufacture of fire extinguishing agents, aerosol propellants, refrigerants, and pesticides.
Chloroform
Used as a solvent, a substance that helps other substances dissolve. Also, it is used in the building, paper and board industries, and in pesticide and film production. It is used as a solvent for lacquers, floor polishes, resins, adhesives, alkaloids, fats, oils, and rubber.
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Dibromoacetonitrile
Produced for use as an antimicrobial component in metalworking fluids.
Dichloroacetonitrile
A by-product of water chlorination.
Ethylbenzene
Used primarily in the production of styrene and synthetic polymers. It is used as a solvent; a constituent of asphalt and naphtha; and in synthetic rubber, fuels, paints, inks, carpet glues, varnishes, tobacco products, and insecticides. It is a component of automotive and aviation fuels.
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Ethylene dibromide (EDB)
Used in various industrial production processes like the production of dyes, waxes, resins, and in laboratories.
Haloacetonitriles (HANs)
An emerging class of nitrogenous disinfection by-products (DBPs) formed in disinfected drinking water and have been reported to be more cyto- and genotoxic than the regulated DBPs.
Haloketones (HKs)
Unregulated volatile disinfection by-products.
Hexachlorobutadiene
Used to make rubber, as a solvent, to make lubricants, in gyroscopes, as a heat transfer liquid, and as a hydraulic fluid.
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
An organochlorine compound that is used as a raw material in manufacturing other chemicals, including pesticides, flame retardants, resins, dyes, pharmaceuticals, plastics, etc.
Nonylphenols (NPs)
Used in manufacturing antioxidants, lubricating oil additives, laundry and dish detergents, emulsifiers, and solubilizers.
Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
An industrial wood preservative used mainly to treat utility poles and cross arms.
TOTAL Perfluoroalkyls (PFAS)
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS)
perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA)
perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS)
perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA)
perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA)
Used to repel oil, grease, and water and used in surface protection products such as carpet and clothing treatments, coating for paper and cardboard packaging, and firefighting foams.
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Toluene
Used in making paints, paint thinners, fingernail polish, lacquers, adhesives, and rubber, and in some printing and leather tanning processes. It is also used in the manufacture of other chemicals, nylon, and plastics. It is also added to gasoline along with benzene and xylene to improve octane ratings.
Trichloroacetonitrile
Can serve as a photoresponsive molecular storage generator for hydrogen chloride.
Trichloroethylene (TCE)
Used primarily to make refrigerants and other hydrofluorocarbons and as a degreasing solvent for metal equipment.
Trihalomethanes (THMs)
Liquid by-products formed when chlorine is used to disinfect water to make it safer to drink.
Tris(chloropropyl) phosphate (TCPP)
A flame retardant commonly used in consumer products.
1,1,1-trichloro-2-propanone
A chlorination by-product in finished drinking water supplies.
1,1,1-Trichloroethene
Used as a metal degreasing and dry-cleaning solvent, and to make other organic chemicals.
1,1-Dichloro-2-propanone
A disinfection byproduct in drinking water.
1,1-Dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE)
A man-made substance used to make fire retardant fibers and polyethylene food wraps.
1,2-dichloroethane
Used to make vinyl chloride, and chlorinated solvents (trichloroethane, trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene, and vinylidene). The solvents are used to remove grease, resins, glue, and dirt. It is used as a solvent in the manufacture of polystyrene and SBR latex.
1,2-Dichloroethene
Used to make other chemicals in industry. It may also be used in refrigerants, pharmaceuticals manufacturing, or to remove fat from fish or meat.
1,2-Dichloropropane (dichloropropane)
A solvent that evaporates quickly at room temperature and is used as degreaser and dry cleaning fluid.
1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane
In the past, it was used in large amounts to produce other chemicals, as an industrial solvent to clean and degrease metals, and as an ingredient in paints and pesticides.
1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
In the past, was used as a solvent, for degreasing metals, in paint removers, varnishes, lacquers, photographic film, rust removers, resins and waxes, extraction of oils and fats, and as an alcohol denaturant, in organic synthesis
1,1,2-Trichloroethane
In plastic, petrochemical, and other chemical product and preparation manufacturing; In industrial adhesives and sealants; and. As a laboratory chemical.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's) removed up to 99.97%*
VOCs are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature, meaning they easily evaporate into the air. They can come from various sources, including paints, solvents, fuels, and household products, and can contribute to indoor and outdoor air pollution.
Potential Health Risks: Eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches, loss of coordination and nausea, damage to liver, kidney and central nervous system. Some organics can cause cancer in animals, some are suspected or known to cause cancer in humans.
Alachlor
A chloroacetanilide type herbicide with restricted usage for preemergent control of grasses and broadleaf weeds.
Atrazine
A chlorinated triazine systemic herbicide that is used to selectively control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds before they emerge.
Benzene
A chemical that is naturally produced by volcanoes and forest fires. However, benzene is more commonly used in industrial processes to make plastics, resins, synthetic fibers, lubricants, dyes, and more.
Bromochloroacetonitrile
A by-product of trichloroacetic acid production, which is used in the manufacture of plastics, herbicides, and pesticides.
Bromodichloromethane
Formerly used as a flame retardant, and a solvent for fats and waxes.
Bromoform
Used in making organic chemicals, as a solvent for waxes, greases, and oils, and as a flotation agent in mineral separation.
Carbofuran
A systemic, broad spectrum N-methyl carbamate insecticide and nematicide registered for control of soil and foliar pests on a variety of field, fruit, and vegetable crops.
Carbon tetrachloride
A solvent in the rubber industry. As a cleansing agent in the dry cleaning industry. As a solvent in the chemical and drug industry.
Chlorobenzene
Chlorodibromomethane
A chemical intermediate in the manufacture of fire extinguishing agents, aerosol propellants, refrigerants, and pesticides
Chloropicrin
Cis-1,2-dichloroethylene
Used to produce solvents and in chemical mixtures.
Cis-1,3-dichloropropylene
Cis-1,3-dichloropropylene
Dibromoacetonitrile
Produced for use as an antimicrobial component in metalworking fluids.
Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
A pesticide used against nematodes (roundworms or threadworms) that damage pineapples, bananas and other tropical fruits.
Dichloroacetonitrile
A by-product of water chlorination
Dinoseb
An herbicide that was once widely used for weed-control when producing crops like soybeans, vegetables, fruits and nuts, or citrus.
Endrin
Used as a pesticide to control insects, rodents, and birds.
Ethylbenzene
Used primarily in the production of styrene and synthetic polymers. It is used as a solvent; a constituent of asphalt and naphtha; and in synthetic rubber, fuels, paints, inks, carpet glues, varnishes, tobacco products, and insecticides. It is a component of automotive and aviation fuels.
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Ethylene dibromide (EDB)
Used in various industrial production processes like the production of dyes, waxes, resins, and in laboratories.
Haloacetonitriles (HAN)
An emerging class of nitrogenous disinfection by-products (DBPs) formed in disinfected drinking water and have been reported to be more cyto- and genotoxic than the regulated DBPs.
Haloketones (HK)
Unregulated volatile disinfection by-products.
Heptachlor
Used as a soil and seed treatment and for termite control.
Heptachlor epoxide
Used in the past for killing insects in homes, buildings, and on food crops.
Hexachlorobutadiene
Used to make rubber, as a solvent, to make lubricants, in gyroscopes, as a heat transfer liquid, and as a hydraulic fluid.
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
An organochlorine compound that is used as a raw material in manufacturing other chemicals, including pesticides, flame retardants, resins, dyes, pharmaceuticals, plastics, etc.
Lindane
Used as an insecticide on fruit and vegetable crops, for seed treatment, in forestry, and for livestock and pet treatment.
Methoxychlor
Used as an insecticide against flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, chiggers, and a wide variety of other insects.
O-dichlorobenzene
P-dichlorobenzene (PDCB)
Used as a repellant against snakes, rats, mice, squirrels, bats and insects, as a deodorizer for toilets, urinals and diaper pails, as an insecticidal fumigant, and as an air freshener.
Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
An industrial wood preservative used mainly to treat utility poles and cross arms.
Simazine
An herbicide of the triazine class. The compound is used to control broad-leaved weeds and annual grasses.
Styrene
Tetrachloroethylene
Toluene
Used in making paints, paint thinners, fingernail polish, lacquers, adhesives, and rubber, and in some printing and leather tanning processes. It is also used in the manufacture of other chemicals, nylon, and plastics. It is also added to gasoline along with benzene and xylene to improve octane ratings.
Trans-1,2-dichloroethylen
Tribromoacetic acid
Trichloroacetonitrile
Can serve as a photoresponsive molecular storage generator for hydrogen chloride.
Trichloroethylene (TCE)
Used primarily to make refrigerants and other hydrofluorocarbons and as a degreasing solvent for metal equipment.
Trihalomethanes (THMs)
Liquid by-products formed when chlorine is used to disinfect water to make it safer to drink.
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Xylenes
1,1,1-trichloro-2-propanone
A chlorination by-product in finished drinking water supplies.
1,1,1-trichloroethane
1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
In the past, it was used in large amounts to produce other chemicals, as an industrial solvent to clean and degrease metals, and as an ingredient in paints and pesticides.
1,1,2-trichloroethane
In the past, was used as a solvent, for degreasing metals, in paint removers, varnishes, lacquers, photographic film, rust removers, resins and waxes, extraction of oils and fats, and as an alcohol denaturant, in organic synthesis
Also known as vinyl trichloride
1,1-dichloro-2-propanone
A disinfection byproduct in drinking water.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's) continued..
1,2-dichloroethane
1,1-dichloroethylene
1,2,4-trichlorobenzene
1,2-dichloroethene
1,2-dochloropropane
2,4-D
2,4,5-TP (silvex)
Disinfection Byproduct contaminants removed up to 99.68%*
DBPs are formed when disinfectants like chlorine react with organic matter in water. Trihalomethanes (THMs) are common DBPs.
Potential Health Risks: While disinfection is essential for preventing microbial contamination, excessive levels of DBPs can pose health risks, including an increased risk of cancer and reproductive issues.
Bromochloroacetonitrile
Chemical by-products of chlorine disinfection of drinking water.
Bromodichloromethane
Formerly used as a flame retardant, and a solvent for fats and waxes.
Bromoform
Chloroform
Chlorodibomomethane
Chloramine
A disinfectant used to treat drinking water. It is formed by mixing chlorine with ammonia.
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Chloropricin
Haloacetonitrile (HANs)
An emerging class of nitrogenous disinfection by-products (DBPs) formed in disinfected drinking water and have been reported to be more cyto- and genotoxic than the regulated DBPs.
Haloketones (HKs)
Unregulated volatile disinfection by-products.
Trihalomethanes (THMs)
Liquid by-products formed when chlorine is used to disinfect water to make it safer to drink.
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Tribromoacetic acid
Trichloroacetonitrile
Can serve as a photoresponsive molecular storage generator for hydrogen chloride.
Fluoride
You may notice that fluoride and arsenic are not listed. These common water contaminants were tested; however, the BOROUX foundation filters did not effectively filter them. Our testing showed that fluoride was filtered but not for very many gallons. It's important for us to share this information with you and be transparent. We are currently developing new filters that will be specifically designed to address fluoride.
Fluoride is a particularly difficult contaminant to separate from water and requires specialized filtration methods. Activated carbon is very effective for other common contaminants. However, it's not effective for fluoride due to its small molecular size, electrochemical charge, and solubility.
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