Editorial Product Review:Item Description:First Alert, Home Environment Drinking Water Test Kit, 10 Minute Test Uses The EPA Standards For Acceptable Levels Of Lead, Bacteria, Iron, Nitrates, Nitrites, Chlorine, Pesticides & PH, A Great Addition To The First Alert Radon Home Environment Test Kit.
Amazon.com Item Description:The First Alert Drinking Water Test Kit tests for elements in your drinking water system that can lead to serious health problems. It tests and provides immediate results for:
- Bacteria--Strains of E. coli can cause serious illness or death.
- Lead--Causes developmental harm, neurological damage, and kidney damage.
- Pesticides--From agricultural uses, linked to increased cancer rates.
- Nitrates/nitrites--From fertilizers and animal waste, causes developmental problems.
- Chlorine--By-products can increase cancer risk and cause bad taste and odor.
- Hardness--Causes lime scale and higher detergent use.
- pH--Can cause heavy metal (such as lead) leaching and plumbing damage.
The Water Test Kit tests to EPA standards. The kit includes all testing materials; no further lab work is required for results.
--Bree NorlanderWhat's in the Box One bacteria test vial, one lead/pesticide test packet, one nitrate/nitrite test packet, one pH/hardness/chlorine test packet, and user's manual
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Buyer Reviews
Average Buyer Rating:
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OK for basic go/no-go testing
This drinking water test kit is a decent go/no-go for the various tests listed. It won't give you exact numbers for concentrations and what not, but it will tell you if you're above/below federal limits (local limits may likely be lower, but with this test you won't have numbers to compare anyways).
All the tests can be completed in seconds or minutes, except for the e.coli which takes many hours (overnight basically) to get "results".
Price is good.
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Not even one star; in fact, minus 5 stars
This product had poor instructions - one set on one page and another set of instructions on another page - both extremely unclear. Of all the produts I've dealt with, this one in undoubtedly the bottom of the list. I will try to get refund from Amazon.
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Did the job
This product was easy to use and did exactly what it said it would. The only bad thing about it was it was so quick & easy that you found yourself being unhappy that it was all finished and nothing was wrong. Which I admit is peculiar since I certainly didn't really want to find I'd been drinking bad water.
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For piece of mind
We bought an old house and were concerned with lead. This test was easy to perform and gave us piece of mind that our water was a-ok.
