The ability of five tabletop water pitcher filters, listed by the brand name, to
remove arsenic (1,000 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 1,000
μg/L **P<0.001, indicates that the ZeroWater®
filter reduced the arsenic concentration in the filtrate to less than 10
μg/L (mean 2.63 μg/L ± 2.06 μg/L). Data
presented as the mean ± SEM. Effluent arsenic concentrations were:
ZeroWater® (2.7 ± 2.0 μg/L, 99.7% removed by
filtration), PUR® (737.7 ± 72.4 μg/L, 26.2%
removed by filtration), Brita® (808.2 ± 99.2 μg/L,
19.2% removed by filtration), HDX® (913.5 ± 95.0
μg/L, 8.7% removed by filtration), and Great Value®
(916.8 ± 56.8 μg/L, 8.3% removed by filtration).