Question 1

Are Frigidaire water filters NSF certified?

Accepted Answer

They hold listings to NSF/ANSI standards, but not from NSF and not under the Frigidaire name. Searching NSF's own drinking water treatment unit directory for Frigidaire returns nothing — and so do Electrolux, Frigidaire Company and Electrolux Home Products.

The certification is at IAPMO R&T, listed to Electrolux Home Products: four Active files covering NSF/ANSI 42 aesthetic effects, NSF/ANSI 53 health effects, NSF/ANSI 401 emerging compounds and NSF/ANSI/CAN 372 lead content, all checked on 2026-09-05.

IAPMO R&T certifies against the same NSF/ANSI standards, so these are equivalent third-party certifications rather than a lesser form. Once you know what the cartridge is listed for, check your water quality by ZIP code to see which contaminants your own supply actually carries.

Question 2

Does a Frigidaire filter remove lead?

Accepted Answer

One of its listings is a lead-reduction listing and one is not, so the answer depends which you are reading. IAPMO R&T file WP-16165 lists these cartridges under NSF/ANSI 53 for health effects, which is the performance standard covering lead reduction. File WP-14066, 'Lead Free Water Filtration Product', is a different thing entirely: NSF/ANSI/CAN 372 governs how much lead the part itself contains, not what it takes out of your water. Retail copy often prints lead-free without saying which standard it means. The IAPMO record does not itemise a per-contaminant scope for the health-effects file, so we do not publish one. If you are here because of lead in drinking water specifically, the contaminant page covers where it comes from and what reduces it.

Question 3

Why does nothing come up when I search NSF for Frigidaire?

Accepted Answer

Because the files are not in NSF's database and are not under that name. We searched four spellings on 2026-09-05 — Frigidaire, Electrolux, Frigidaire Company and Electrolux Home Products — and every one returned zero rows, while the identical search form returned 375 rows for another manufacturer in the same batch, which is how we know the empty result is real and not a failed search. The listings are at IAPMO R&T under Electrolux Home Products. This is a good illustration of why checking one directory is not enough: GE has the same split, and EveryDrop has the opposite one, with everything at NSF and nothing at IAPMO.

Question 4

Which Frigidaire cartridges does this cover?

Accepted Answer

The replacement cartridges that fit Frigidaire and Electrolux refrigerators — ULTRAWF, WF3CB (sold as PureSource 3), FPPWFU01 and EPTWFU01. The refrigerators themselves are out of scope here; this page is about the filter elements. The IAPMO files are listed at the product level to Electrolux Home Products rather than per cartridge model, so we report the standards each file carries rather than mapping a standard to a single SKU.

Question 5

Is a Frigidaire cartridge certified to reduce PFAS?

Accepted Answer

We cannot say it is, and we will not say it is not. The IAPMO R&T result rows we read name the standard each file carries and its status — they do not itemise which contaminants are within scope. NSF/ANSI 53 covers health effects and NSF/ANSI 401 covers emerging compounds, and PFOA and PFOS are claims some products hold under those standards, but the record we read does not list them for these files. Publishing a PFAS claim on that basis would be inventing a fact the directory did not give us. If you need PFAS reduction specifically, look for a listing that names it — and our page on PFAS in drinking water explains which standards carry those claims.

Question 6

How long does a Frigidaire water filter last?

Accepted Answer

We have not verified a service interval for these cartridges, so we do not publish one. The IAPMO R&T result rows we read name the listee, the product description, the standard and the status — they carry no rated capacity in gallons and no replacement interval. Frigidaire's own packaging and the appliance manual state an interval, and that is the right place to read it; we would rather send you there than repeat a figure we have not opened a source for. A capacity figure matters because a cartridge past its rated volume can stop performing to the standard it is listed under.

Question 7

Where are Frigidaire water filters made?

Accepted Answer

Not established by the records we read. The IAPMO R&T result list identifies the listee as Electrolux Home Products and does not name a manufacturing facility, and NSF returns no record for this brand at all — so there is no facility of record for us to cite. Some certifier listings do carry a facility list; these do not. We would rather leave this blank than infer a country of origin from a brand's corporate address.

Question 8

Is a Frigidaire cartridge better than an EveryDrop one?

Accepted Answer

On certification they are closer than their directory records make them look, and neither is listed under the name on the box. Frigidaire's four Active files sit at IAPMO R&T under Electrolux Home Products and cover NSF/ANSI 42, 53, 401 and 372. EveryDrop's sit at NSF under Whirlpool Corporation and cover 42, 53 and 401, with the EDR models named individually. Both hold a health-effects listing under NSF/ANSI 53; IAPMO R&T and NSF certify to the same standards, so neither listing outranks the other. The practical difference is which refrigerator you own, since these are fit-specific cartridges. What we would not do is call one better because its certifier is more familiar.

Question 9

What is the CSA B483.1 file on the Electrolux listing?

Accepted Answer

IAPMO R&T file WP-30822, 'Drinking Water Treatment Systems', listed under CSA B483.1-2021 and Active as of 2026-09-05. CSA B483.1 is a Canadian drinking-water-treatment-system standard, not one of the NSF/ANSI standards this site indexes, so it does not appear in the standards list above — that list carries only the NSF/ANSI standards in our corpus. We mention the file because it exists on the same listee and you will see it if you search IAPMO yourself, and a page that showed four files where the directory shows five would look like it was hiding one.

SKU / Model	Standards held	What’s certified	Brand claims but NOT certified	Listing
WP-16165 Water Treatment Product - Health Effects — IAPMO R&T file WP-16165, listed to Electrolux Home Products	Performance NSF/ANSI 53	Water Treatment Product - Health Effects IAPMO lists this model by product category, not by individual contaminant.	No discrepancy	View IAPMO listing
WP-14065 Drinking Water Treatment Unit - Aesthetic Effects — IAPMO R&T file WP-14065	Performance NSF/ANSI 42	Drinking Water Treatment Unit - Aesthetic Effects IAPMO lists this model by product category, not by individual contaminant.	No discrepancy	View IAPMO listing
WP-30821 Drinking Water Treatment Units - Emerging Compounds/Incidental Contaminants — IAPMO R&T file WP-30821	Performance NSF/ANSI 401	Drinking Water Treatment Units - Emerging Compounds/Incidental Contaminants IAPMO lists this model by product category, not by individual contaminant.	No discrepancy	View IAPMO listing
WP-14066 Lead Free Water Filtration Product — IAPMO R&T file WP-14066. A MATERIAL listing, not a reduction claim	Material & component safety NSF/ANSI 372	Listed, with no reduction claim named	No discrepancy	View IAPMO listing

Feature	Frigidaire	GE Appliances
Where the health-effects listing lives	IAPMO R&T, file WP-16165 (NSF/ANSI 53-2021)	IAPMO R&T, files W-9756 and WC-11734 (NSF/ANSI 53)
Rows returned by NSF's own directory	None — four spellings, zero rows	Sections under NSF/ANSI 42, 44 and 58, but no 53
Listed under the consumer brand name	No — every file is listed to Electrolux Home Products	Yes — 'GE Appliances, a Haier Company'

Feature	Frigidaire	EveryDrop
Directory holding the certification	IAPMO R&T only — four Active files	NSF only — EDR models under 42, 53 and 401
Listee name on the files	Electrolux Home Products	Whirlpool Corporation
Does the consumer brand name appear in any directory?	No	No — 'everydrop' occurs zero times in NSF's 375-row result
What the other directories return	NSF zero rows; WQA has no cartridge row	IAPMO 'No data found'; WQA 'No results.'

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