You are a new quality control engineer at a company that manufactures bottled drinking water. All the bottles and the filling water are checked hourly to make sure that there are no contaminants. Monday morning you notice that for some reason the water that was used to wash the bottles before filling was not tested over the weekend. Now you have several carloads of product ready to be shipped. What do you do?

a. Have the shipment destroyed and start filling them over again.

b. Test random samples for the shipment and if they pass send the shipment.

c. Tell your supervisor and let him or her decide what to do.

d. Since the wash water has never been contaminated in the past, do nothing and release the shipment.

Use the Engineering Ethics Matrix.