Product review (1 stars): Funky floaters and bogus credentials. Not a company I want to be risking my health with.
Arrived in time and in good shape. Fits well. That's good part, and has little to do with "Refresh" or whoever is behind this product. Now the nasty bits. Literally and figuratively.

It took many, many gallons of flushing to eliminate the creepy-looking little bits of material from my water. This was not the innocuos discoloration from the carbon block that I would see from the Samsung filter.

The one big thing I can't abide is a company that tries to trick consumers into thinking the product is something that it isn't. Starting with the Amazon listing, Refresh wants to appear to be the original Samsung product. "Samsung Aqua-Pure DA29-00003G Water Filter..." That's written to deceive us.

 And later, in the Description "...activated carbon block filter which has received NSF42 approval." That, and all references to NSF "approval" on the refreshmywater.com website are flat-out lies. The WQA has certified the Refresh products to certain NSF/ANSI standards for material safety and structural integrity ONLY. Not removal of solids, cysts, chemicals just materials of construction. This product has no independent certification of removal of foreign materials from your drinking water.

But on the Refresh website, they use the NSF logo and they have a whole page that would have us believe that they have received "Our filters are 100% NSF Certifed." Whatever that means!

The problem is, the Refresh products have no certification directly from NSF. They are not listed in NSF's website, which is kept up to date every day. If a product isn't found on the NSF online lookup, it ain't certified, folks. End of story.

So, if you don't mind rolling the dice on a product that lies about its credentials, be my guest. I bit, based on the WQA certification, but when I investigated further, I found all the misleading information this product claims for itself, and regretted trying to save $20 on something that may affect my health.

 Into the trash can with this filter! Back to Samsung, which is made by 3M and has real, not bogus, NSF certification. With Refresh, we don't have a clue as to who we are really dealing with as far as the manufacturer's identity, except that it's some phantom factory in China. What a surprise, that, eh?