To be specific about drugs in the water is very impractical because there are literally tens to hundreds of thousands of drugs on the market. Since the tests for each drug costs about $1,000.00 dollars per test, the best we can do is talk generalities.
Drug compounds typically fall into 3 categories. One is inorganic compounds, such as minerals. One is organic compounds. The last is a combination of the two (inorganic and organic compounds).
As you may know, pharmaceutical companies spend inordinate amount of money sending people around the world to collect various plants, which are obviously organic, to test them for their medicinal properties. This would indicate to us that most drugs are organic or combinations of organic and inorganic compounds.
The testing of our Black Berkey purification elements indicates that they are very powerful at extracting organic compounds which would give us the expectation that they should be effective at removing or reducing drugs derived from organic compounds. Further we would expect that they would reduce or remove the organic portion of compounds that are composed of both organic and inorganic materials.
Since it’s unlikely that anyone has specific testing results on all the drugs that are potentially out there in your water, it seems to us that the best strategy would be to obtain the most powerful water purification system available. The most powerful systems are typically those that are capable of purifying raw, untreated water.
