Filtercon: The System Used and Recommended

By Leading Doctors.

Most people have no idea of the degree of contamination our drinking water has

faced over time. Water is source of all life and it is the #1 thing our body depends

on each day. Can you imagine what we have been contaminating our bodies with

everyday? The reason why I chose the Filtercon is for the same reason - to have

the satisfaction in knowing that the water I’m drinking is safe. The Filtercon uses

advanced technology in water filtration that uses no chemicals, salt, or other

additives that may harm the quality of water. I highly recommend this product for

everyone. ”

--Dr. William Randall Kellas, Ph.D, Nutritional Biochemistry

Founder of the Center For Advanced Medicine, Encinitas, CA

Host of “Health Talk-A Second Opinion”, KPRZ & KKLA Radio

Author of the book, “Surviving the Toxic Crisis” and others.

Dr. Batmanghelidj is the worlds leading authority on water and the

human body, and we are proud that he chose a Filtercon System for

his home. Dr. Batmanghelidj is the author of the best selling book

“Your Bodies Many Cries For Water.”

“I have recommended water filtration to my patients for over 30 years. As

I find new and better units, I seriously consider advising my patients to

consider the particular brand I have researched. My first move when I

examined the Filtercon unit was to buy one and replace the unit I have in

my own home. It obviously was superior and I have been most pleased.”

-- Dr. Kurt Donsbach, D.C., N.D., Ph.D.

We’re proud that the medical director of the Center for Advanced Medicine Dr. Mark

Drucker chose a Filtercon system for his home, and recommends Filtercon systems

to his patients!

--Mark Drucker M.D.

Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Medicine

“Many water systems will remove the bad taste and bad odors of community water.

In addition, the Filtercon removes the chlorine that can have medical consequences. Many

people are not aware that chlorine is absorbed through the skin while bathing or showering as

well as from drinking water. This is a system that works on all the water in a house and not

just drinking water. The water has significant health benefits. Finally Filtercon leaves in all

the healthful minerals, that so many people have deplet

--Neil W. Hirshenbein, M.D.

Personal Founder and Medical Director

Physicians Clinic, La Jolla, CA & El Cajon, CA

Filtercon Technologies

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Granulated Activated Carbon

HOW IT WORKS

There are two principal mechanisms by which activated carbon removes contaminants from water; absorption, and catalytic reduction, a process involving the attraction of negatively-charged contaminant ions to the positively-charged activated carbon. Organic compounds are removed by absorption and residual disinfectants such as chlorine and chloramines are removed by catalytic reduction.

APPLICATIONS

Activated carbon filtration is very common in a number of home water treatment systems. It can be used as a standalone filter to reduce or eliminate bad tastes and odors, chlorine, and many organic contaminants in municipal (pre-treated or chlorinated) water supplies to produce a significantly improved drinking water. It is also very commonly used as a pre-treatment as part of a reverse osmosis system to reduce many organic contaminants, chlorine, and other items that could foul the reverse osmosis membrane. 0.5 micron carbon block filters are commonly used to remove cysts such as giardia and cryptosporidium.

WHAT CONTAMINANTS DOES CARBON REMOVE?

Activated carbon filters remove/reduce many volatile organic chemicals (VOC), pesticides and herbicides, as well as chlorine, benzene, trihalomethane (THM) compounds, radon, solvents and hundreds of other man-made chemicals found in tap water. Some activated carbon filters are moderately effective at removing some, but not all, heavy metals. In addition, densely compacted carbon block filters mechanically remove particles down to 0.5 micron, including Giardia and Cryptosporidium, turbidity and particulates. Although some iron, manganese, and hydrogen sulfide will be removed by these higher quality activated carbon filters, a manganese greensand iron reduction filter is generally preferred to remove these contaminants as the effectiveness of carbon filter against iron and manganese is generally short-lived if the contaminant concentration is high.

Carbon filters are NOT generally successful at removing dissolved inorganic contaminants or metals such as minerals/salts (hardness or scale-causing contaminants), antimony, arsenic, asbestos, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, fluoride, mercury, nickel, nitrates/nitrites, selenium, sulfate, thallium, and certain radio nuclides. Removing these contaminants requires either a reverse osmosis water filter system or a distiller (some can also be removed by KDF-55 or manganese greensand).

GAC does not remove sediment / particulate material very well, so they are often preceded by a sediment filter. Sediment pre-filters also prolong the activate carbon cartridge life by eliminating gross contaminants that would otherwise clog the activated carbon thereby reducing the surface area available for absorption. Carbon block filters are generally better then GAC filters at removing sediment.

Tested and listed under ANSI/NSF Standard 42 for Aesthetic

Effects.

KDF process media are high-purity copper-zinc formulations used in pretreatment, primary treatment, and wastewater applications. KDF media supplement or replace existing technologies to dramatically extend system life, reduce heavy metals, microorganisms, scale, lower total cost, and decrease maintenance.

Patented KDF process media are 100 percent recyclable and contain no chemical additives. Hospitals, restaurants, municipal water treatment facilities, and homes rely on KDF process media to safely reduce or remove chlorine, iron, hydrogen sulfide, heavy metals, and bacteria from their water.

KDF process media are high-purity copper-zinc granules used in a number of pre-treatment, primary treatment, and wastewater treatment applications. KDF media supplement or replace existing technologies to dramatically extend life of the system, control heavy metals and microorganisms, lower total cost, and decrease maintenance. KDF process media work to reduce or remove chlorine, iron, hydrogen sulfide, lead, mercury, calcium carbonate, magnesium, chromium, bacteria, algae, and fungi.

KDF media utilize an old process in a new way-the oxidation and reduction of ions, known as redox. In short, the redox process works by exchanging electrons with contaminants. This give and take of electrons converts many harmful contaminants into harmless components, such as chlorine to chloride. Other contaminants, including heavy metals, bond to the KDF media, which greatly reduces or virtually eliminates these substances.

KDF process media control microorganisms in two ways. The first is a by-product of redox; the exchange of electrons sets up an electrolytic field in which most microorganisms can't survive. Second, the process of forming hydroxyl radicals and peroxides from some of the water molecules interferes with the microorganisms' ability to function.

WHAT IS KDF?

F A Q’s

Why is Filtercon the best product on the market?

Quality control, and the most advanced technology on the market make Filtercon California’s leading Filtration Company.

Will I save money?

Yes! Central filtration does for water what central heating and air conditioning did for those commodities years ago. It reduces the cost of filtration dramatically long term. A Filtercon system is an investment not an expense. Year after you can expect to save money. For Example:

– No purchasing of salt/potassium

– No need to purchase a reverse osmosis unit

– No purchasing bottled water

– No purchasing of replacement filters

– No wasted water

– Use 30 percent less soap products

– Longer life for your appliances

– No faucet, or shower filter needed

Is there any maintenance?

No! Our environmentally friendly system cleans itself once a week. There is absolutely no maintenance on your part for 10-15 years.

Where does the unit get installed?

The Filtercon system is installed on the main incoming water line of your home. Installed before the hot water heater, the system is able to capture both hot and cold water, delivering fresh, clean water throughout every faucet in your home including baths and showers.

What will I notice after my unit is installed? – No chlorine bad tastes, and odors.

– Your water will feel silkier, and your skin softer.

– Increased efficiency of cleaning products-better suds.

– Hot water temperature is increased as the scale is dissolved off healing elements.

– Plants will thrive with conditioned water.

– Lime scale build-up is significantly reduced, and is easy to clean without harsh chemicals.

Will I need a reverse osmosis unit under my sink?

No! A Filtercon system eliminates the need for any other type of filtering device on your faucets and showers, saving you additional dollars!

A Few Words About

Chlorine....

• Chlorine is universally recognized and used as an effective chemical for

purifying water. Water companies use chlorine because of its effectiveness in killing microorganisms.

• Chlorine attacks organic matter, making it a potent bleaching agent. Almost every home uses common household bleach in their laundry.

• Chlorine is also very hazardous. Even when diluted, it must be used with care. Read the label on any bottle of household bleach.

• If chlorine works so well in killing bacteria and bleaching and oxidizing organic food stains, what does it do to our skin, eyes, and lungs?

• Chlorine plays havoc with our skin and hair because it chemically bonds with the protein in our bodies. It makes hair brittle and dry; it can make sensitive skin dry; flaky; and itchy.

• It makes good sense to remove chlorine from drinking water. It is just as logical to remove it from our showers. Many authorities feel that we take in more chlorine from one shower than from drinking the same water in one day.

• Medical science considers the human skin surface as the largest body organ, weighing about 12 pounds for the average adult. It would not seem any wiser to expose that much skin to a chemical disinfectant like chlorine, than it would be to drink it.

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Chlorine in Your Shower and Bath

Chlorine is used almost universally in the treatment of public drinking water because of its toxic effect on harmful bacteria and other waterborne, disease-causing organisms. But there is a growing body of scientific evidence that shows that chlorine in drinking water may actually pose greater long-term dangers than those for which it was used to eliminate. These effects of chlorine may result from either ingestion or absorption though the skin. Scientific studies have linked chlorine and chlorination by-products to cancer of the bladder, liver, stomach, rectum, and colon, as well as heart disease, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), anemia, high blood pressure, and allergic reactions. There is also evidence that shows that chlorine can destroy protein in our body and cause adverse effects on skin and hair.

“The presence of chlorine in water may also contribute to the formation of chloramine in the water, which can cause taste and odor problems.”

“Since chlorine is required by public health regulations to be present in all public drinking water supplies, it is up to the individual to remove it at the point-of-use in the home.

Kemysts Laboratory

Dr. Riddle, Ph.D.

“Cancer risks among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine.”

U.S. Council Of Environmental Quality

“Drinking tap water that is chlorinated is hazardous, if not deadly to your health.”

Healthy Water For A Longer Life

Dr. Martin Fox

“Known carcinogens are found in drinking water as a direct consequence of the practice of chlorination, a long establishing public health practice for the disinfection of drinking water.”

Municipal Environmental Research Lab

Francis T. Mayo, Director

“Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times. While it prevented epidemics of one disease, it was creating another. Two decades ago, after the start of chlorinating our drinking water in 1904, the present epidemic of heart trouble, cancer, and senility began.”

Saginaw Hospital

Dr. J.M. Price, M.D.

“The cause of atherosclerosis and resulting heart attack and strokes is none other than ubiquitous chlorine in our drinking water.”

Coronaries/Cholesterol/Chlorine

Dr. J.M. Price, M.D.

“A Professor of Water Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh claims that exposure to vaporized chemicals in the water supplies through showering, bathing, and inhalation is 100 times greater than through drinking tap water.”

“As chlorine is added to kill pathogenic microorganisms, the highly reactive chlorine combines with fatty acids and carbon fragments to form a variety of toxic compounds, which comprise about 30% of the chlorination by-products.”

“During the mid-70s, monitoring efforts began to identify widespread toxic contamination of the nation’s drinking water supplies, epidemiological studies began to suggest a link between ingestion of toxic chemicals in the water and elevated cancer mortality risks. Since those studies were completed, a variety of additional studies have strengthened the statistical connection between consumption of toxins in water and elevated cancer risks. Moreover, this basic concern has been heightened by other research discoveries.”

The Nader Report-Troubled Water On Tap

Center for the Study of Responsive Law

“Evidence points to chlorine-based compounds (orcanochlorines) as significant contributors to the epidemic of chronic illnesses in humans, including breast cancer in women, and reproductive, developmental, immunological, behavioral and endocrine disorders. In addition, chlorine-based chemicals, like CFC’s and other refrigerants, are primarily responsible for the destruction of the Earth’s protective ozone layer.”

Greenpeace. Jan-Feb-Mar 1993

“A long, hot shower can be dangerous. The toxic chemicals are inhaled in high concentrations.”

Bottom Line August 87

Dr. Julian Andeiman, Ph. D.

“Skin absorption of contaminants has been underestimated and ingestion may not constitute the sole or even primary route of exposure.”

American Journal Of Public Health

Dr. Haline Brown

“You Get More Exposure From Taking A Shower Than From Drinking the Same Water.”...Summary statement from a recent study at a major University and as reported in Science News, Vol. 130, Sep 20, 1986

Filtercon has no information that any particular consumers’ water supply has the water quality

problems or health hazards referred to in this report.

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Hydromagnetic Conditioning Principles

“It would be difficult to consider modern techniques without magnetism. Radar,

television, radio, the electron microscope, cyclotrons in atomic energy, etc., could not work without the existence of permanent magnets to guide the electrons to increase their kinetic energy. It is well known that magnetic fields may have an effect on the behavior of dissolved matter as well as crystalline matter; it is therefore logical that these fields could act during the reaction in which these matters take a part, and more particularly, on corrosion and scale formation.”

The operation of hydromagnetic conditioning systems is based on the fact that most scale-causing solids in fluid systems are diamagnetic. Typical scale-causing substances are calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, gypsum, barium sulfate, sodium chloride, magnesium, sulfate, paraffin, oil waxes and grease.

A diamagnetic substance does not have a permanent magnetic moment. This means it will lose its polarity due to changes in pressure, temperature and/or time. When diamagnetic molecules are no longer magnetized, they lose their ability to repel each other. Without this ability, the molecules clump together, forming clusters too large to remain suspended in the fluid system. This results in the formation of scale that we commonly call “lime” (in water) or “carbon deposits” (in fuel).

This situation can be corrected, however. If diamagnetic substances are subjected to a magnetic field, they will regain their magnetism. In fact, they will take on the polarity of the magnetic field itself, a phenomenon called induced polarization. Once again able to repel each other, the diamagnetic molecules do not cluster, remaining suspended in the fluid system and eliminating both new and existing scale buildup (lime and carbon deposits). The ability to reverse existing buildup is important since it restores pipes and equipment to their original condition. This happens because the re-polarized molecules are able to re-polarize the other molecules that have settled out, suspending them once again in the fluid system.

Hydromagnetic conditioning systems provide the quantity and quality of magnetic energy required to induce polarization in scale-causing substances. The patented magnetic circuits, optimize the factors that affect performance; gauss; field direction, shape and strength; velocity and fluid properties.

All of this is accomplished with a marvel of simplicity -- and low cost. They install easily, require no electricity or maintenance, do not add or remove anything from fluids; and they virtually last for ever. If chemicals are being used, they can be reduced significantly, and in some cases, eliminated.

Simply Stated

Water Conditioners magnetically alter the physical characteristics of water-borne minerals so they don’t cling to pipes or equipment surfaces. No scale is formed because minerals remain in a rinsable, purgable solution. This technology does not add or remove anything from the water, so water purity is unaffected.

• MODERN HYDROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY

THE FILTERCON TOTAL HOME FILTRATION AND CONDITIONING SYSTEM USES MODERN PATENTED HYDROMATIC TECHNOLOGY

• Filters out chlorine bad tastes, and odors from every faucet, bath and shower in the house

• Reduces hard water problems without adding chemicals; requires no maintenance.

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• Does not remove healthy minerals, which also gives a great taste to the water.

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• Leaves water feeling naturally clean and crisp; leaves skin feeling soft and refreshed; hair silky.

• Requires no reverse osmosis. Provides clean filtered drinking water from every faucet, bath and shower in the house.

• No wasted water-Requires no reverse osmosis

• No cartridge or filter change maintenance

• Requires no reverse osmosis

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• System cleans itself automatically once per week; Uses only 20-30 gallons

• Expelled water contains no salt and is applied to grass or vegetation whenever possible, eliminating water waste.

• Computerized system automatically cleans itself

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• No maintenance or repair costs.

• Eliminates need for buying bottled water. Drink delicious tasting water from any faucet.

• The convenience of being able to drink delicious water from any faucet at any time contributes to a healthy lifestyle.

VS OLD SALT TECHNOLOGY

WATER SOFTENERS DEVELOPED IN 1938

USE SALT OR POTASSIUM

VS Does not filter water

VS Requires constant addition of salt or Potassium to water

VS Removes healthful minerals

VS Salt residual makes water feel slippery or slimy – a common complaint is, “I feel like I can’t wash the soap off.”

VS Requires reverse osmosis under sink to filter salt from drinking water at only one faucet

VS Reverse osmosis wastes from 3 to 7 gallons (depending on model) for each gallon flowing from the faucet

VS Reverse osmosis requires filter changes

VS Regenerates up to 3 times per week; wastes as much as 150 gallons of water per week

VS Regenerated wastewater contains salt and cannot be used on grass or vegetation which it would kill. Many communities are now becoming Brine restricted; no longer allowing salt laden wastewater to be put down the drains because it eventually pollutes groundwater

VS Water softeners require a constant addition of salt or potassium and periodic reverse osmosis filter changes

VS Requires continuous maintenance and repair costs

VS Many people continue to purchase bottled water for drinking and cooking

VS The inconvenience of lugging bottles of water from the store and sometimes running out, inhibits good water drinking habits

Is bottled water the answer?

We don’t think so, while it’s generally good

tasting, bottled water is:

•Expensive, anywhere from $0.79 to $5.00 per gallon, and will

continue to increase in price!

•The quality of some, maybe little or no better than tap water

•Plastic bottles may leach PCB’s into the water

•Large bottles are heavy to lug around

•When you take a bath or shower your body is still absorbing

•the chlorine, chloramines, and other chemicals anyway, even if

you’re drinking bottled water.