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Clearly Filtered safety review
Founded 2011 · Rancho Santa Margarita, California
Our verdict
AcceptableClearly Filtered is the pitcher on our list you can look up on a certifier's own register rather than take on trust — NSF lists its Filtered Water Pitcher under NSF/ANSI 42, and marks it certified to NSF/ANSI/CAN 372 for lead-free plumbing content. That listing is real, and its scope is the reason this is graded acceptable rather than recommended: the NSF entry covers exactly two claims, Chlorine Reduction and Taste and Odor Reduction, and 372 concerns the lead content of the pitcher's own materials. Neither is a lead or PFAS reduction claim, which is what the brand leads with. The company's headline numbers — 400-plus contaminants across heavy metals, PFAS, fluoride, pharmaceuticals and microplastics — come from its own commissioned testing at QFT, now operating as IAPMO New Jersey, which the company describes as an independent ISO 17025 laboratory testing to NSF/ANSI protocols. Testing to a protocol and being certified to a standard are different things, and Clearly Filtered does not hold an NSF/ANSI 53 or 401 listing, which are the health-effects standards those claims would live under. We found no recall naming the brand in CPSC or FDA data and no docketed case naming it as of September 2026.
- Best for
- A household that wants a pitcher backed by a real NSF register entry and is comfortable reading the lab data behind the broader contaminant claims for itself — the company publishes it rather than summarising it.
- Skip if
- You need the lead, PFAS or fluoride reduction itself to be third-party certified rather than third-party tested. ZeroWater's performance data sheet carries an IAPMO R&T mark against NSF/ANSI 53 — look up file W-17155 on IAPMO's own directory before relying on it, because the certificate itself says it is not evidence of current listing.
Reviewed by Dan Golden · October 2026
Company facts
- What they make
- water, water filtration
- Where it's made
- Clearly Filtered's own About page says the company "started in 2011 with the belief that water should not contain harmful contaminants, period." NSF's listing gives the company address as 23121 Antonio Parkway, Suite 130, Rancho Santa Margarita, California, and names the certified facility as Sturgis, Michigan. No parent company is named anywhere on the company's site and none was found.
The company behind Clearly Filtered, Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Rancho Santa Margarita, California (23121 Arroyo Vista Suite B, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688)
- Ownership
- Independent
No outside owner who can reset the standards.
Safety breakdown
Listed on NSF's own register: company Clearly Filtered, brand/trade name "Filtered Water Pitcher," Pour Through model, under NSF/ANSI 42, with claims Chlorine Reduction and Taste and Odor Reduction, 100-gallon replacement cycle, facility Sturgis MI, and the [G] mark for NSF/ANSI/CAN 372 lead-content conformance. Queried the same register for NSF/ANSI 53, 401 and 58 and got "No Matching Products Found" for each, so the health-effects standards are genuinely not held. Zero CPSC recall records. Zero California Proposition 65 60-day notices — the AG register's CSV export returns no rows at all for this defendant. No federal docket names the brand: a CourtListener search for "Clearly Filtered" returns seven results, every one of them an unrelated case where the phrase appears in ordinary text.
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Listed on NSF's own register: company Clearly Filtered, brand/trade name "Filtered Water Pitcher," Pour Through model, under NSF/ANSI 42, with claims Chlorine Reduction and Taste and Odor Reduction, 100-gallon replacement cycle, facility Sturgis MI, and the [G] mark for NSF/ANSI/CAN 372 lead-content conformance. Queried the same register for NSF/ANSI 53, 401 and 58 and got "No Matching Products Found" for each, so the health-effects standards are genuinely not held. Zero CPSC recall records. Zero California Proposition 65 60-day notices — the AG register's CSV export returns no rows at all for this defendant. No federal docket names the brand: a CourtListener search for "Clearly Filtered" returns seven results, every one of them an unrelated case where the phrase appears in ordinary text.
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Where this brand appears
- CitedWaterClearly Filtered Water Filter Pitcher, 10 Cup BPA Free Water Filtration | Targets up to 386+ Contaminants, Reduces Fluoride, Lead, PFAS, Arsenic, Microplastics, Chlorine, NSF Certified, BPA Free · updated Oct 2026
- ListedBest water filters, by what you are actually filteringClearly Filtered Water Filter Pitcher, 10 Cup BPA Free Water Filtration | Targets up to 386+ Contaminants, Reduces Fluoride, Lead, PFAS, Arsenic, Microplastics, Chlorine, NSF Certified, BPA Free · updated Nov 2026
- ListedThe water filter cheat sheetClearly Filtered Water Filter Pitcher, 10 Cup BPA Free Water Filtration | Targets up to 386+ Contaminants, Reduces Fluoride, Lead, PFAS, Arsenic, Microplastics, Chlorine, NSF Certified, BPA Free · updated Oct 2026
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Recall history
No recalls found. We checked CPSC and FDA recall databases as of October 14, 2026 and found no recalls for this brand. Recall databases update continuously — if you own a recalled product, the official notice is always the source to follow.