New Millennium Concepts, Ltd. (“NMCL”) and the James B. Shepherd Trust, the brand owner of Berkey Water Systems, filed a lawsuit against the EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) in August of 2023 seeking to stop its unjustified treatment and perceived persecution of Berkey Water Filters based on the EPA’s decision this year to treat Berkey Water Filters as though they are pesticides, rather than water filters.| Berkey Water Systems
In a 30+ minute interview with popular consumer health advocate and award-winning investigative journalist Mike Adams (“The Health Ranger”), NMCL owner Jim Shepherd discusses in-depth many of the issues regarding the company’s current lawsuit against the EPA. Plus, he offers his thoughts on the growing problem of counterfeit Berkey® filters being sold online, and gives valuable advice on how to spot fakes.| Berkey Water Systems
Florida congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is demanding answers from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as to why the agency decided to classify gravity-fed water filtration systems sold by Berkey Water Systems as pesticides, according to a Matt Gaetz press release and a report published in the Washington Examiner.| Berkey Water Systems
Read Thomas Buckley’s article for the California Globe which does a great job discussing the EPA’s surprising—and arguably arbritary—2022 reinterpretation of its own regulations that resulted in the agency’s reclassification of popular Berkey® systems as pesticides, rather than water filters, after more than two decades of indisputably safe manufacture and sale. The reclassification, in turn, prompted Berkey to sue the EPA, which you can read more about below. Litigation is current...| Berkey Water Systems