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NSF/JWPA Protocol Will Evaluate Drinking Water Treatment Product’s Ability to Reduce Iodine

A new protocol is being developed by NSF International and the Japan Water Purification Association(JWPA) to appraise water filtration products that can reduce radioactive iodine from drinking water Activated carbon, ion exchange and reverse osmosis can be certified to ensure effective iodine reduction when the protocol is finished.

After the earthquake in Japan in March 2011, a team of NSF and JWPA experts worked together to provide a new protocol to appraise whether adsorptive and absorptive media, including activated carbon, reverse osmosis and ion exchange point-of-use water filtration technologies can effectively diminish iodine from water. The International protocol will be named as NSF/JWPA Protocol P72 Drinking Water Treatment Units – Iodine Radioisotope Reduction.

As a genuine international protocol that can be applied to different regions, it is required that those water filtrations meet drinking water treatment country standards in US, such as the requirements of NSF/ANSI Standard 42- Aesthetic, NSF/ANSI Standard 53- Health Effects for adsorptive or absorptive media and NSF/ANSI Standard 58: Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Treatment Systems. In Japan, they must achieve the Japanese Industrial Standard(JIS) 3201: Testing Methods for Household Water Purifiers.

NSF International is an authoritative and credible association which has more than 40 years of experience developing drinking water standards. The new protocol can go further to protect public health.