Quebec Order of Chemists warning against free residential water tests [Video]

Having received calls from disgruntled citizens, the Quebec Order of Chemists is warning against vendors offering free water analyses in residential areas.

“Salespeople sometimes go door-to-door claiming that tests at neighbours’ homes have shown poor water quality. There are also advertisements circulating on social media to sell expensive purification systems that are not necessary,” the order said in a news release on Monday.

The salespeople’s ploy is to turn up at a home and almost invariably discover that the water quality is poor. According to order president Michel Alsayegh, the results are deliberately falsified in order to make people worry about their health, so that they will give in to the pressure selling.

“Anyone who comes along and says, ‘Oh, you’ve got this in your water, you need to have it analyzed’,” said Alsayegh in an interview, “it’s easy to mislead someone because they’re easily frightened, it’s normal, it’s something …