Everything you need to know about Enagic Prefiltration.
by: Joe Borowy
If you’re like 90% of the Enagic users I’ve talked to over the past year, your prefiltration selection went something like this:
1. Your sponsor has a company that they deal with for prefiltration and you just follow their lead and get whatever that company suggests without doing any homework.
OR
2. You’re referred to Ionfaucet and you know Enagic allows Ionfaucet to set up a booth at Enagic conventions, so you just automatically go with what they suggest, assuming they provide the best prefiltration possible for ionizers.
OR
1. Your sponsor has a company that they deal with for prefiltration and you just follow their lead and get whatever that company suggests without doing any homework.
OR
2. You’re referred to Ionfaucet and you know Enagic allows Ionfaucet to set up a booth at Enagic conventions, so you just automatically go with what they suggest, assuming they provide the best prefiltration possible for ionizers.
OR
3. You just go with Enagic’s own prefiltration, assuming that they must be the best, well, because it’s Enagic (even though Enagic does not manufacture the prefilters and they are not NSF or WQA certified).
One of those three situations accounts for the overwhelming majority of Enagic users I talk to.
And it’s unfortunate because there’s so much to know about filtration.
While it may not be the centerpiece of the story with Enagic, it’s a critical component that is too often ignored by well-meaning users.
I commonly see Enagic owners using prefiltration that cannot address the more difficult contaminants in their water.
And most contaminants in the water cannot be tasted or seen. So it’s easy to be using a filter that produces great-tasting Kangen water, with residual contaminants remaining. The taste test does NOT tell the true story here.
The problem is, the user believes that these filters do address these issues (because they are often misled to believe so), so they live in ignorant bliss on the matter.
And the Kangen water tastes great. Usually the user experiences noticeable benefits after switching to this water from whatever they were drinking before, so who cares, right?
This is where you must decide, as a matter of integrity, whether or not it’s important to you as an Enagic user to have the best water possible.
The Fluoride Conundrum
How to Really Know What a Filter Can Actually Do
NSF Testing is the gold standard of testing and certification when it comes to water filters.
NSF (The National Sanitation Foundation) is an international non-profit. It's a totally unbiased, independent organization that performs testing and certification for many types of products, primarily regarding safety and sanitation.
One of its main testing categories is water filtration products. NSF sets standards and protocols for testing as various contaminants become a public concern.
NSF Standards
NSF Standard 61 is a certification for material safety. It means that the physical media used in a water filter system has been tested to be free of hazardous materials such as lead.
Some water filter systems will say "NSF Certified for Material Requirements Only." This means NSF 61.
Some key points about NSF 61:
1. It certifies safety of materials only, not tested system performance
2. All water filter systems sold, distributed, or manufactured in North America are required to comply with NSF 61
3. All NSF Certified systems that are actually performance tested and Certified for the other standards listed below, must be made with 100% NSF 61 Certified materials.
NSF Standard 42 primarily concerns what are considered aesthetic-concern contaminants. These include chlorine, chloramines, particulates, and taste/odor.
NSF Standard 53 is testing for contaminants of health concern. These are known health-hazards like mercury, lead, asbestos, cysts, giardia, chlordane (pesticide), MTBE (gasoline additive), PCB's (industrial electric products component), toxaphene (toxic insecticide that is banned), radon (radioactive odorless gas), and a long list of volatile organic compounds (VOC's). Trihalomethanes (THM's) and Haloacetic Acids (HAA's) are both part of that list of VOC's.
NSF Standard 401 is a newer protocol that was created in response to consumer demand for independent testing on what are known as emerging contaminants. These are contaminants like pesticides, insecticides, and pharmaceuticals that have leached into water supplies in trace amounts in recent years.
The contaminants tested in this category are tested in trace quantities, standards set by NSF to reflect real-world conditions for these contaminants. Some of the compounds on this list are quite familiar to most, such as Ibuprofen and DEET (bug spray, anyone?).
It's important to note that a system may be certified under one of these standards, but not for all of the contaminants.
There are many products out there that can correctly state that they are Certified under NSF 42 and 53, but not for very many contaminants.
Recently I saw a product that stated this, and when I looked up their NSF listing, under Standard 42, they are certified for chlorine reduction only, and under Standard 53, for cysts only.
So while that's still better than many filter systems on the market, just seeing certification for NSF 42 or 53 doesn't tell the whole story. You have to look at which specific contaminants are listed under the certification.
You can always see that on NSF's water filter listings.
The WQA and IAPMO are two other certification bodies that test to true NSF protocols.
See the videos below for how to search for water filters on all 3 of these certification directories.
How to Check a Prefilter's Claims on NSF
Other reputable certification agencies that test to true NSF Protocols
My Recommendations
Get in touch with me
If you've found this report useful, feel free to share it. And if you have questions or want to clarify anything, feel free to get in touch with me.
I do offer free consultations if you're interested in getting a Multipure System for your Enagic. Just by talking to me, I can usually save you some money by helping you get only the installation accessories you really need, and sometimes we run promotions that offer further savings or value.
My contact info is below:
Joseph Borowy
443-416-7565
http://vortexpure.com
I am an Independent Builder for Multipure, #424074.
Multipure does offer generous commissions on their systems. If you're interested in being able to make extra commissions from your customers' prefiltration purchases and/or you have downline that may want to do the same, get in touch with me and I'll explain how it works. I work with a number of Enagic distributors who do this already.
Wishing you good health from the best water possible,
Joe Borowy
Additional Resources
At this point, you know the basics about identifying what a filter can and cannot do, as well as the tactics commonly used to mislead consumers.
You know where to look when you want identify a quality prefilter.
This report is condensed for convenience, so I thought I'd offer some extended reading for those who find this material particularly interesting.
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An excellent video report done to show how many water filter companies make
false claims and put people's health at risk in areas with dangerous
water supplies. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED WATCH!!
- A piece I wrote that goes into more detail about misleading claims and NSF Certfications.
- A shorter article that hones in on specifically why I feel the Aquaperform is the best choice for Enagic prefiltration in the vast majority of cases.
- A piece written by a company in New Zealand that reflects the findings of Multipure's own lab tests on these two medias commonly sold to address fluoride.
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