Product review (3 stars): Seem to be good, but are they new?
I was a little puzzled that even though they say to run 5 gallons of water through the filter before drinking, the first water through the filter was clear.  This makes me a little Leary about it being a new filter, considering every new filter I have installed previously had the fine particulate black carbon in the first 1/2 gallon of water through the filter.  I would like to know why these "new" filters do not have any of the tell tale residual carbon in the rinse out.