The EVERPURE OCS2 Replacement Cartridge is engineered to enhance the quality of your water for consistently great-tasting coffee and beverages. With its proprietary Micro-Pure® II filtration media, it effectively inhibits bacteria growth on the filter media, ensuring prolonged product life. EVERPURE's unique filter blend, featuring activated carbon, reduces chlorine taste, odor, and other offensive contaminants, ensuring a premium taste experience. The sanitary cartridge replacement process is simple, quick, and clean, with internal filter parts protected from handling or contamination, ensuring consistent water quality. By reducing scale buildup*, it saves energy and prolongs equipment lifespan, providing cost-effective operation. The proportioned scale inhibitor feed dramatically prevents limescale formation in brewing equipment, maintaining optimal performance. Additionally, the exclusive precoat filtration technology offers superior chlorine taste and odor reduction, along with mechanical filtration of dirt and particles as small as 0.5 microns in size. Certified to reduce cysts such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia by mechanical means, it provides added peace of mind. (Note: *As tested by Pentair® Everpure)