Clean, safe water is essential for both domestic and commercial applications. Whether it is drinking water, pool/spa water or industrial water systems, ensuring that filters effectively remove contaminants is of the utmost importance. With increasing regulatory and consumer focus on water quality, verifying water filter performance against industry standards is crucial.
We provide rigorous testing for a broad spectrum of water filters, ranging from sports bottles to whole building filtration systems.
Why choose water filter testing from SGS?
Our filtration lab is a trusted provider of expert testing services for the filtration industry. Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by A2LA since 2000, we ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability across various industries. We enable you to:
- Verify compliance with industry standards like NSF, AFNOR, ISO and more
- Test across a wide range of conditions, including flow rates, pressures, pH and temperatures
- Ensure performance of filters in actual field conditions with simulated contaminant challenges
- Cover extensive testing needs from drinking water to pool/spa filtration systems
- Gain access to our test stands designed for a wide range of filter sizes and capacities
- ASTM F795: water filter single pass efficiency
- ASTM F838: bacterial retention of membrane filters for liquid filtration
- EPA 815-R-06-009: membrane filtration
- EPA LT2: water bag and cartridge filtration
- NSF 42: water general filtration test
- NSF 53: water health filtration test
- NSF 58: reverse osmosis filter test
- NSF 419: public drinking water filtration test
- NSF P231: microbiological water purifier test
- EN 13443-1 and -2: drinking water filters for buildings
- EN 14685: membrane separation devices
- EN 16713-1: swimming pool filters
- NSF 50: pool and spa filter test series