The ability of five tabletop water pitcher filters, listed by the brand name, to
remove arsenic (100 μg/L) from soft water. Control represents ICP-MS
measurements of the arsenic solution before it was added to the filters. Three
lots of each filter were tested, 1 L/filter. *P<0.05 versus 100
μg/L **P<0.001, indicates that the ZeroWater®
filter reduced the arsenic concentration in the filtrate to less than 0.05
μg/L. Data presented as the mean ± SEM. Effluent arsenic
concentrations are: ZeroWater® (below detection, 100% removed by
filtration), PUR® (65.2 ± 5.5 μg/L, 34.8%
removed by filtration), Brita® (72.4 ± 7.7 μg/L,
27.6% removed by filtration), HDX® (81.8 ± 6.6
μg/L, 18.2% removed by filtration), and Great Value®
(79.9 ± 2.4 μg/L, 20.1% removed by filtration).