Nitrate is a chemical compound which is colorless, odorless and tasteless in the composition and could be found in the groundwater of Greece and its consumption leads to the creation of one of the strongest cancer-causing compounds in the body, the nitrosamines.
Nitrates occurs mainly in water by nitrates in areas with intensive farming. Nitrate-nitrogen fertilizers are basics in agriculture, but the continued and indiscriminate use has led to their infiltration into the groundwater. Through irrigation and rain, the nitrates which are not absorbed by plants, washed off farmland penetrate deeper into the subsoil where they accumulate and then continuously contaminate the aquifer ending up in lakes and rivers.
The safety limit of nitrate content in drinking water by the American Environment Agency is 10 mg / l, while the Greek law has a limit of 50mg / lt. When nitrate is consumed by the body, about the 1/5 of the amount converted into nitrites, which are responsible for the creation of nitrosamines, one of the strongest carcinogenic chemical compounds. They also cause a change of hemoglobin into methemoglobin, which does not adequately convey oxygen in the body.
Veluda reverse osmosis filters remove proven over 98% of nitrate from the water that reaches your glass.