Travel loses a lot of its luster when you get a bug from a waterborne microbe. That goes for hikers who want to refill their canteen from a brook as well as for travelers to a foreign country where the water may be dicey.
The SteriPEN uses UV light to destroy viruses, bacteria, and protozoa and it takes less than a minute to work. Independent labs have confirmed SteriPEN's claims. We much prefer it to iodine tablets, which don't kill Cryptosporidium in any case. Giardia and Crypto are both killed by the UV light.
Read more about SteriPEN at the company's website. It comes in two sizes, $99 and $129, here.
written on Wednesday Apr 11, 2007
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