General Electric MWF Refrigerator Water Filter

• GE guaranteed fit: Compatible with select GE side-by-side and bottom-freezer refrigerators
• Premium filtration: Certified to reduce chlorine-resistant cysts, lead, select pharmaceuticals and 15 other contaminants
• Twist and lock design: Simple design provides easy, tool-free, no-mess filter replacement
• Six-month filter life: For best filtration results, filter cartridge should be replaced every six months or 300 gallons
• GE's most advanced filtration Tested and verified to filter five trace pharmaceuticals, including ibuprofen, progesterone and others

GE’s NSF-certified MWF replacement refrigerator water filter—part of the company’s SmartWater filtration series—is the improved version of the GWF model, providing you and your loved ones cleaner, healthier, and better-tasting drinking water at home. By reducing contaminants like mercury, toxaphene, p-dichlorobenzene, carbofuran, alachlor, benzene, lead, cryptosporidium, and giardia, the MWF is a safe and affordable way to contribute to a healthy lifestyle.

NSF Certified
NSF International is an independent nonprofit organization that examines consumer products to ensure they comply with strict standards for certification. By analyzing product materials, observing manufacturing facilities, testing products repeatedly and monitoring product development, the NSF serves as a safeguard for consumer safety. And the GE MWF is NSF certified.

GE Warranty Information
For a period of 30 days after the date of original purchase, GE will replace (at no charge) and part of the water filter cartridge that fails because of a defect in materials or workmanship. The warranty extends to the original purchaser and any succeeding owner for products purchased for home use within the United States. The warranty does not include service trips to your home for product tutorials; improper installation; failure of the product if it is misused; replacement of the cartridge because of water pressure that is outside the specified operating range; damage to the product caused by accident, fire, or flood; and incidental or consequential damage caused by possible defects with the appliance.

About GE Replacement Filters
It's important to change your filters as recommended to ensure you have the filtered water your home and family need. GE replacement filters make changing filters easy. For example, you'll never have to worry whether you've installed the filter upside-down—their filters can be installed in either direction.

What's in the Box
One GE MWF SmartWater replacement refrigerator water filter.

                                    

By Riyad Kalla

Shipped immediately, took it out of the box, ignored all the instructions and warnings as men do, unscrewed the other one, put this one in, filled up 2 big glasses of water to "flush it" and that was it.

Maybe 5mins worth of effort?

Not sure what else to say in a review of this item, worked great in our GE fridge.

By D. Rodrigues

I really like the simplicity of this filter. You don't need to turn off anything to install it and you can easily do with with you bare hands without using specialized tools. It has never leaked and does a great job providing water filtered through activated charcoal for about 6 months. I had to admit I was curious about what was inside so I opened an old unit open to check it out. I included an image in the media section. GE uses an interesting approach with this filter. Rather than using a mesh screen with activated charcoal particles in an inner sleeve, they developed a solid, fused charcoal plug that must serve as both the particle and chemical filter. The filter canister is really thick-walled so I imagine it can withstand even intense water pressure. All and all a great product.

By M. Liu

Six months ago I ordered one sold by Amazon and it worked great with my fridge.
A week ago I ordered another one and did not notice that is not sold by Amazon. At first I thought there is no big deal, it was prime eligible so it arrived on time.

I received the package and I noticed something is not right when I tried to replace it. The two filters do not look the same.
So I immediately went to Home Depot to buy another one to see which of them is bootleg.

I have three photos here:
Photo 1 - the boxes:
Left - from Appliance Cove, Right - from Home Depot.
Left one is a bit smaller. An extra label is there hiding the original barcode. The barcode on top does not match anything from Google search.
Right one is a bit bigger. Search the barcode on Google will return you it is GE MWF water filter.

Photo 2 - the filter:
From left to right: from Amazon, from Appliance Cove, from Home Depot.
You can notice that the print of the center one is worse than the others.

Photo 3 - the filter again:
From left to right: from Amazon, from Appliance Cove, from Home Depot.
Again the center one does not look same as the others. The align arrow does not align and it is shorter than the others.

Clearly the one from Appliance Cove is a bootleg product.

  

By mark swatzell

This filter replaced the GWF filter in my regrigerator without any adapter or problem

By PJgamers

I was a little worried about changing the filter as I'd never done it before and wasn't entirely sure this was the right filter. Returns with Amazon are really easy, so I just bought it and two days later it was here (thanks to amazon prime). The instructions were simple and very easy to follow. They include simple instructions for removing the old filter without breaking anything. The water tasted TONS better immediately. The filter was less expensive on amazon than in the local stores. I can't think of a reason to give it less than 5 stars...

By B. Bucher

You just can't go wrong buying original manufacturer GE refrigerator water purification cartridges actually made by GE. Since they're fully enclosed (and consequently you will never know exactly what's inside) you should be able to trust the original manufacturer, who has a reason to make high quality replacement parts so that you don't think your fridge is defective. On the other hand, refrigerator owners need to know that your GE fridge is programmed to notify you to replace the cartridges every six months WHETHER OR NOT you need to do so. We've easily gotten more than a year out of each cartridge; you can tell it needs replacement when the water doesn't taste quite as fresh as it should. I like to keep an extra cartridge on hand in case I need one quickly, but so far that has never happened. Happy Hint: Write the date you replace the cartridge on the cartridge itself with a black sharpie pen, and that way you will know exactly how long your cartridge lasts (which can vary according to the water supply you are using).

By George Kirkman

Works. I went with the name brand over the generic, because the the higher standards it meets.

There is a lack of instructions so I went online and learned two things, 1) You do not have to shut the water off to the ice maker 2) Fill the filter with water to avoid airlock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UerVcdQXJ_Y

By Alan 

We have a General Electric ESS25 fridge that has a water and ice dispenser. This is the filter for the water/ice dispenser. We change it every six months.

Our house has a water softening system, and also a reverse osmosis system under the kitchen sink. So, our water is pretty good. We use the R.O. water for cooking and drinking, and thus rarely dispense cold water from the fridge. Still, we use the fridge's ice often, and the filter keeps the ice tasty (don't want it ruining the drinks) and also keeps the ice-making mechanism clean.

These filters are a fortune to buy retail. We buy them in three-packs from Amazon for a lot less.

HINT 1: Newer fridges tell you when it's time to change the filter. Ours doesn't. We settled on every six months because we only use it for ice, not for water. However, I'm told that if you notice that your fridge water has a smell or doesn't taste good, that indicates that it's time to change the filter. It all depends on how much water/ice you use, and how clean your home water supply is.

HINT 2: When you change the filter, write the date of the change on the filter with a sharpie. Otherwise you'll have no idea how old it is!

By Mars B

Being the logical being I am, I filled the inside with water first. Took a while since it had to settle down to the bottom of the stuff it was packed with to filter the water. Once I had it full, I replaced the old one from our refrigerator, pretty easy. Pretty much twist and pop out the old one then push in the new one and twist in.
Tried the water dispenser, got the extra water out, then it made the kind of noise you hear when a machine is trying to siphon the water out and getting nothing (about two seconds), and finally the water came out. Just to be sure I filled a glass full and threw it out. Filled another glass and drank it, and it tastes much better, cleaner... before it had this weird very slightly moldy taste (I dunno, I must be really sensitive). Anyway, it works just fine.

By KJH

The water in our refridgerator started to have a funky taste to it and also was not coming out of the fridge very fast, so I ordered a new filter hoping that would help. IT DID!

We received this the other day and I put it in right away. I love how easy this is to install a simple twist in and all is ready to go. After installing the new filter, I did run about two pitchers full it through it first and dump it out. Of course while it filtered through it did gurgle and splunter working out all the air bubbles in the system.

Then I tested it by filling my glass up with water. The water tasted so good again! We also noticed that it comes out a lot faster now than it did before. After we did a water test to test the water compared to the water that comes out of the faucet. The water out of the fridge was much cleaner and didn't have any Iron like the water from our faucet did. We were so thrilled!

Our filter before hadn't been changed in over a year. So that explains why we were having problems. We do plan now to replace the filter every year. Get this filter! you won't be mad you did!