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What will a Puratap remove from my tap water?
The Puratap GI-2600
The Puratap GI-2600 water filter, fitted with our high quality double o'ring sealed filters, is able to remove a significant number of contaminants from your water.
So what can a Puratap water filter remove, and should you be worried about having these things in your water?
Here is a list of just a few of the things a Puratap GI-2600 water filter can remove...
| Name | What is it? | What could it do to me? | Has it been found in Australian water? |
| Alachlor | Herbicide | Colo-rectal cancer, leukemia and myeloma (WHO 1996, Leet 1998, Lee 2004) | Not tested (has been found overseas) |
| Atrazine | Herbicide | Gastrochisis and reproductive cancer (Fan 2007, Waller 2010) | Yes |
| Benzene | Petrochemical | Leukemia, anencephaly and spina bifida (Aksoy 1974, Rinsky 1989, Garduno 2010, Lupo 2011) | No (has been found overseas) |
| Bromodi-chloromethane | Trihalomethane | Unknown (causes liver and kidney cancers in rats and mice (Aida 1992a, 1992b) | Yes |
| Bromoform | Trihalomethane | Unknown (causes lethargy and adenocarcinoma in rats and mice (NTP 1989)) | Yes |
| Carbofuran | Pesticide | Infertility, nervous system damage and coma (Tenebaum 2008, Gallegoa-Avila 2010) | Not tested |
| Chloroform | Trihalomethane | Anaesthesia, intrauterine growth retardation, liver damage, neurological damage and cancer (Kramer 1992, Li 1992) | Yes |
| Chloropicrin | Pesticide | Ocular and respiratory irritation (Oriel 2009, Barry 2010) | Not tested |
| Cryptosporidium | Protozoan Parasite | Cryptosporidiosis- characterised by vomiting, diarrhoea, fever and loss of appetite (CDCB 2007) | Yes |
* Efficient contaminant removal is reliant on filter change at prescribed intervals. The Puratap GI-2600 water filter requires a filter change at 2500L or yearly, which ever comes first.
You don't have to take our word for it though, have a look at Puratap's independent testing proving what our GI-2600 water filter can remove and our independent testing proving that the GI-2600 water filter does not add or leech anything back into your water!
Puratap water treatment testing for ASNZS 3497.pdf
