Theres a lot of information in the news lately about pharmaceutical drugs being found in the water. Do Berkey filters remove pharmaceuticals from the water?
To be specific about drugs in the water is very impractical because there are literally tens to hundreds of thousands of drugs on the market to test for. Since the tests for each drug costs about $1,000.00 dollars per test, the best we can do is talk generalities. Drug compounds typically fall into 3 categories. One is inorganic compounds, such as minerals. One is organic compounds. The last is a combination of the two (inorganic and organic compounds). As you may know, pharmaceutical companies spend inordinate amount of money sending people around the world to collect various plants, which are obviously organic, to test them for their medicinal properties. This would indicate to us that most drugs are organic or combinations of organic and inorganic compounds. The testing of our Black Berkey purification elements indicates that they are very powerful at extracting organic compounds which would give us the expectation that they should be effective at removing or reducing drugs derived
