Boogyman used your link to view the Fitbottle from the USA.
On the homepage I was instantly suspicious with the claim “
Removes up to 99.99997% of bacteria, viruses & harmful chemicals” because percentage contaminant removal values (the 99.99997% claimed) used are based on Log reduction values to show the relative number of particulates removed. Simply this is a way to express levels of decreased biological contamination in water by factors of 10 which are then easily converted to the corresponding percentage removal, where 1-log = 90% / 4-log = 99.99% / 6 log = 99.9999% and so forth, there would not be a
99.99997 at the end.
Reading on, they claim to remove metals such as mercury and nickel, volatile organic compounds such as formaldehyde, even viruses such as hepatitis and norwalk (winter vomiting virus) and all confirmed by “
rigorously tested by a nationally certified laboratory” using “
a patented filter media design” – this is a miracle product, achieving more than water utility companies, both in your country, Belgium and here in the UK, who are responsible for providing safe and clean drinking water who have to use a seven stage process of treatment to produce water to 6-log, not 7-log.
There is an old adage:
If something seems too good to be true it probably is!Despite several requests direct to the firm to provide me with the details of the national certified laboratory and their patent registration, in addition to an on-line search for such a patent – nothing
OK, this fir is at the extreme edge of making unsubstantiated and false claims about their filters to share in the US$15 Billion bottled water market, yet they are not alone; it’s a murky industry
I had hoped to publish the results of my research sooner rather than later, however I have to await approval from the rest of the group before I release any finding and it may well be some week, possibly months yet.