Product Description

Our line of PUR accessories makes it easy to ensure the optimal performance of your PUR water filtration product. Each PUR replacement filter provides a built-in Automatic Safety Monitor Gauge that shows how much filter life is left and automatically shows you when to replace it. This replacement water filter is for the CT5000 countertop water filter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5443 in Home Improvement
• Brand: PUR
• Model: FM-5050C
• Dimensions: 3.10" h x 7.50" w x 8.00" l, 5.38 pounds

Features

• Add creativity to your tap water with this innovative Raspberry Flavor Cartridge
• Made for the CT5000 countertop water filter
• Simple to install
• A great alternative for fans of bottled water who want to save money in the long run
• Includes LED filter replacement indication light

Amazon.com Product Description
The PUR FM-5050C Three-Stage Horizontal Flavor Options Faucet Filter offers you the freedom to enjoy clean, fresh-tasting water straight from the tap. This faucet filter provides up to 100 gallons, or three-months-worth, of purified tap water, with the option to give each glass a boost of fruity flavor. And because enjoying water from your kitchen sink shouldn't be a health risk, this innovative three-stage filter system safely removes heavy metals, sediment, agricultural pollutants, microbiological cysts, and industrial pollutants from your family's water supply.

The PUR FM-5050C Three-Stage Horizontal Flavor Options Faucet Filter At a Glance: 3-stage filtration removes 99% of contaminants Works with any PUR Faucet and Side Tap system Fruit flavored water at the touch of a button Reduces the waste of discarded plastic bottles Single filter provides up to 100 gallons of purified water

PUR water tastes great and helps you avoid the waste and expense of bottled water.

Add sugar-free fruit flavors to your water at the push of a button.

Includes everything you need for a quick, tool-free installation.

Convenient Design Makes Cooking Easy
The Three-Stage Horizontal Flavor Options Faucet Filter takes a few tool-free minutes to install on most standard faucets. Its versatile design is interchangeable with any PUR Faucet and Side Tap system.

Once operational, your faucet easily switches between tap and filtered water, making it convenient for cooking. And unlike filtered pitchers, the faucet filter needs no refilling--simply turn on your faucet for fresh, clean drinking water. A built-in indicator will keep track of the life of your filter, which will provide up to 100 gallons of purified tap water. The indicator will flash when the filter should be replaced.

Children Love the Burst of Fresh Flavors
The innovative Three-Stage Horizontal Flavor Options Faucet Filter allows you to give your water a boost of fruity flavor, which is a great way to get children to drink enough water. With five tasty fruit flavors to choose from--grape, strawberry, peach, lemon, and raspberry--your children will be more healthy and hydrated than ever.

The flavor cartridge of your choice fits easily into the filter. With the push of a button, flavor is added to your water glass, leaving the water in the tap unflavored. One push is enough to flavor one eight-ounce glass of water. The more you push, the more flavor you get! And you can change flavors as often as you wish. Each flavor cartridge provides up to 75 servings of flavor and contains no sugar, calories, or dyes.

Three-Step Filtration Keeps Your Family Healthy
Convenient and easy to use, this superior three-stage filtration system is the most advanced around. It removes 99.9% of harmful microbiological cysts, such as cryptosporidium and giardia, as well as other contaminates, such as lead, chloride, and arsenic. Heavy metals, sediment, agricultural pollutants, and industrial pollutants are also filtered out. What's more, pharmaceutical residue that's often found in the water supplies of major metropolitan areas is reduced by 96%.

The smart filter system also leaves beneficial fluoride in the water. This means your water will not only be healthier, it will taste cleaner. PUR believes your water should be as clean, natural, and free of unwanted substances as possible. To this end, All PUR products are tested and certified by NSF International, an independent agency that administers a series of rigorous tests for water purification.

Reduce Environmental Waste While Saving Money
By investing in a PUR water filtration system, you'll be spending a fraction of what you would in one year of buying bottled water. And by bottling your own filtered water, you'll not only be saving money, you'll be helping the environment by reducing plastic waste from discarded water bottles.

What's in the Box
PUR FM-5050C Three-Stage Horizontal Flavor Options Faucet Filter and one raspberry flavor cartridge.

Which PUR Water Filtration System Is Right for You?

COMPARE PITCHER / DISPENSER / FAUCET MOUNT WATER SYSTEMS System Type Pitcher / Dispenser Faucet Mount Product 2-Stage Pitcher or Dispenser 2-Stage Faucet Mount 3-Stage Faucet Mount   PUR Dispenser PUR Pitcher PUR Flavor Options Pitcher PUR Faucet Mount PUR Horizontal Mount PUR Vertical Mount PUR Flavor Options Product / Filter Model Number Matches 2-Stage Pitcher / Filter CRF-950Z 2-Stage Faucet Mount / Filter RF-3375 3-Stage Faucet Mount / Filter RF-9999 No Refilling Required   • • Estimated Filter Life 2 months 3 months 3 months Water Filtered per Filter 40 gallons 100 gallons 100 gallons Filters over Natural Minerals*     • Leaves Fluoride in Water • • • Filter Reduces: Chlorine and Chlorinization By-products Chlorine (taste & odor) • • • Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs) •   • Cadmium •     Copper •     Lead •† • • Mercury • • • Zinc •     Sediment Nominal Particulates (Class I) • • • Turbidity / Cloudiness   • • Microbial Cysts Cryptosporidium • • • Giardia • • • Agricultural Pollutants 2.4-D • • • 2.4-5-TP (Silvex)   • • Alachlor     • Atrazine • • • Carbofuran •   • Chlordane     • Endrin     • Heptachlor Epoxide     • Lindane • • • Methoxychlor   • • Simazine •   • Toxaphene • • • Industrial Pollutants Asbestos   • • Benzene • • • Carbon Tetrachloride •   • Ethylbenzene     • Monochlorobenzene     • MTBE •   • O-Dichlorobenzene     • Styrene     • Tetrachloroethene •   • Toluene •   • Trichloroethene     •

*Natural Minerals: Water is filtered over natural minerals for a more crisp and refreshing taste. †This system meets the lead reduction requirements for compliance under NSF/ANSI Standard 53 as tested by PACE Analytical Services, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Looks nice and the flavor is good too
To quickly answer the question most people will want to know about, the flavoring option is a mixed bag. Personally, I think it tastes great but I am used to the flavor of "diet" tasting drinks so if you can stand drinks like Crystal Light, Fresca soda, or similar you will probably like this as well. This was a present for my mother, however, and she doesn't like the taste. Adding flavor is completely optional. It's simply a small plastic container that is attached to the front of the purifier and it squirts a small amount of sucralose flavoring into the water dispensed from the separate tap.

I'm also pleased to note that this matches a chrome faucet perfectly and I didn't need separate (included) adapters during installation. My only complaint is you never feel like it is installed securely enough. While only finger tightening was enough to use without leaks, it still moves around sideways a lot. I'm not sure if that was the intent, but I would have preferred something that locks solidly into place. Installation of the filter is idiot-proof as you are literally placing a square peg into a round hole. Screw the cap on the front into place, installing the flavor cartridge if you desire, and you're ready to go.

The filters are rated to purify 100 gallons before needing replacement. A small electronic light blinks green, yellow, or red when you switch to purified water as an indicator. Most importantly, the water tastes great and I find myself drinking a lot more of it in place of soda or other drinks. That certainly can't be a bad thing. Recommended.

Update (May, 2008): I feel I should update this review. While my purifier worked, I was disheartened to read so many reviews saying these were defective. After about six months of use I started to see symptoms of problems others were complaining about such as leakage from the mount and decreased water pressure (likely due to a loose seal). P&G, the makers of Pur, were nice enough to send me a coupon for a replacement faucet but unfortunately the replacement leaked everywhere. I now question the quality and reliability of these devices, but cannot change my original rating. While the idea is great, these do seem to be cheap junk and I would not recommend them now. I guess I was lucky the first time.

Poorly made piece of junk
Recently the quality of the PUR Faucet Mount systems have gone into the toilet. I contacted PUR to let them know I was having problems with keeping their PUR filter from leaking. They sent me a coupon for a new one and I purchased this "state of the art" model thinking that if the previous models had kinks then surely they would have worked them out by now. Ummmm... no way. The silver colored plastic Faucet Mount Housing (the large silver part that holds the filter) came off within about a week of us installing it because the glue gave out. The front silver cover that houses the flavor cartridge kept falling off if it was slightly tapped. This thing leaked within a few months of getting it. Try as we may, tightening it did nothing. Then we tried to take it off to check the rubber seal. The mounting nut that attaches it to the faucet then locked up so we couldn't put it back on. Save your money. Replacing the unit every few months doesn't give you any real savings. I'm dissappointed again. I wish I could give it -3 stars because I would.

Worth the investment
I'm a very VERY picky person when it comes to water. I cannot stomach the taste of tap water so for years I've been buying at least a case of water each week.

I was very skeptical about trying anything out of the tap using a filter but I bought this with the raspberry flavoring. If you're going to do it, might as well do it right!

I'm actually very surprised. The instructions made it so incredibly easy to install and use the unit and the water that came out didn't have that 'tap water taste' to it. It was extremely clean and the flavoring is a nice added benefit.

I'd suggest this to anyone that uses bottled water on a regular basis. It will save you money in the long run and the hassle of recycling.