Flouride Removing Cartridge

Flouride Removing Cartridge

The American Dental Association, in November 2006, announced that the ingestion of fluoride is too dangerous for babies. They have notified their members of this, but we are not aware of any effort to notify the public. You can read more about that and other risks of drinking fluoride, including that it is carcinogenic, at our Fluoride Dangers page.

Fluoride is easy enough to remove if you use enough of the right filter media. It is part of a metallic compound in our water, and it takes the opposite attraction of a metallic substance to remove it. Every metal has a charge, either positive or negative, and each can be either strong or weak. The right combination happens with activated alumina, which is in one of the canisters in our fluoride-removing two-canister water filters. Through the attraction of the metals, up to 99% is normally removed (rated at 2400 ppm).  

Activated alumina is not the material we know as aluminum.  It is aluminum oxide, the same natural substance as sapphire and rubies, but without the impurities that give the gems their color.  Aluminum is a more highly-processed man-made material fabricated in part by the addition of fluoride!  Activated alumina is a resin with a very high surface-area-to-weight ratio, with a lot of tunnel-like pores that run all through it. This means that there is a lot of surface area against which the water interacts, thereby removing fluoride.  Should there be any amount of leaching of materials from the first canister, the filter media in the second canister removes it.  Customers who have tested these filters in their homes have reported 0 fluoride when new, and 0 fluoride after 6 & 7 months of use.  (We're more impressed by tests of filters in homes than in labs.) View a research study report on the effectiveness of Activated Alumina.  The frequently repeated statement that only reverse osmosis removes fluoride is false.   See this page:  Reverse Osmosis.

This page describes the fluoride water filters offered by friendsofwater.com  There are many pages within our site with additional information on the need for water filters and why the filters we sell are recommended.  We have many water filters that remove fluoride, including combined with other types of filtration to remove the contaminants you want filtered.
To go straight to fluoride water filters in our store: fluoride water filters.