Hi Chen Ko
Thank you for your response and insights.
I did not realise that pesticides also
contained hormones! That's a little worrying.
Would there be any reverse osmosis
systems you would recommend?
Thanks.
Best regards
C
Hi C,
Pesticides technically do not contain
hormones. However, some pesticide molecules resemble hormone molecules hence
exerting similar effects.
As mentioned previously, a reverse osmosis (RO) unit with pre- and post carbon filtration will be up to the task of removing hormones in water. As mentioned elsewhere in this blog (1, 2, 3), I am an advocate of NSF/ANSI certification for household water filtration units.
You can try this RO unit from Amazon which is certified under NSF/ANSI 58 (the standard for RO units) for system construction. Before the water goes into the RO membrane, it passes through a sediment filter, granular activated carbon filter and an activated carbon block filter which should do a good job at pretreatment. After the RO membrane, the water goes into a post activated carbon filter which should clean up the final product nicely. But
as I mentioned previously, there is no certification to reduce hormones specifically so this unit certainly is not certified as such.
Do read up another of my previous posts on RO: Is RO (reverse osmosis) water drinkable? Busting some of its myths and reiterating some of its truths
Cheers
Chen Ko  |
| A capable set-up for an RO unit |