RECENTLY, a video emerged on the Facebook posted by
one Niyi Ogunbiade showing a dead frog in dispenser bottled water manufactured
by CWAY Nigeria Drinking Water Science and Technology Company Limited.
According to Ogunbiade, he claimed to have bought the
water in his neighbourhood in the Lekki area of Lagos, and that drinking water
for his family, which includes a new baby, was also from the bottled water
mounted on the dispenser.
Worried by the public health risk associated with the
development, ICT-BizAfrica paid a
visit to the factory of CWAY Nigeria Drinking Water Science and Technology
Company located at the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Lagos to examine the production
line from which the CWAY dispenser bottled water is produced.
Contrary to our expectation, senior executive of the
company granted full access to our correspondent to examine the production line,
and to see if there was any sanitary breach that could have made it possible
for a frog to have found its way into the dispenser bottled water.
Our investigation however confirmed that the
production facility for the CWAY dispenser bottled water had no sanitary breach
that would have allowed a frog into any of its bottle water notwithstanding the
technology deployed by the company, which is meets global standard.
Narrating how the company received the news of a dead
frog found in one of its dispenser bottled water, Deputy Director, CWAY Group, Mr.
Tony Ojumoola said that it was shocking to the management of the company
because it has never possible for the size of a frog to go through its tight
production line where 100 percent sanitary level is maintained.
According to Ojumoola, when the video came to the
notice of the company swung into to action to study the video to confirm if its
quality assurance seal was intact but unfortunately it was discovered that the
two level quality assurance seal has been tampered with.
He said further that those who are passionate about
the CWAY brand of bottled water confirmed on its FaceBook page that the person,
who posted the video, without drawing attention of the company to it for proper
investigation was mischievous.
He disclosed that upon physical examination of the
said bottle when a team from CWAY visited the complainant at his Lekki home, the
Blue Seal (Shrink Wrap) was not present on the product, and that no batch or
production date was found on the seal of the bottle, as against the standard
for all CWAY products.
Ojumoola wondered why the complainant did not dim it
fit to inform the company of his discovery at the point of purchase noting that
it is the standard of CWAY to often to let his consumer to check the security
features before making any purchase, the possibility of fake CWAY water in a
competitive market cannot be ruled out.
He stated that since the security features and the
quality assurance seal from CWAY were not found on the dispenser bottled water
examined at the home of Niyi Ogunbiade in Lekki, Lagos the product is obviously
not from CWAY.
He said that because the brand is doing well in the
market, there are those who are taking advantage of that to adulterate it by
counterfeiting its security and quality assurance features stressing that some
of them have been seized and that the case is already in court.
Water Group Senior Advertising Manager for CWAY Group,
Auscar Ikoro described the development as an attempt to adulterate the CWAY
water saying that while examine the video he discovered that there people
laughing at the background of the video while the recording was going on.
He noted that the development is one of the traces of
stiff competition in the market saying that the complainant was obviously
ignorant of the security features that comes with the CWAY bottled.
He said further CWAY has already informed the general
public through its Facebook page that the matter is under investigations and
preliminary findings from its investigations will be revealed soon.
The Quality
Control and Assurance Officer, Mr. Franklin Okwara who took ICT-BizAfrica through the production
plant of the CWAY water products said that the entire production is devoid of
any human related efforts beside the operation of the high-tech machine.
He explained that the CWAY water is refined and
packaged that utilizes micro-filters that
makes in practically impossible for anything even the size of a frog to
go through the membrane in the double reverse osmosis process.
According to him, all impurity are trapped and the
pure water allowed to go through stressing that all processes are repeated at
least two times, which involves eight filtration bed of silicon, titanium
filters.
Besides, he said that the double reverse osmosis, ozone
dozing, the bottles are also automatically washed more than 24 times over
thereby making it impossible to even have microbes in CWAY product noting that
after each bottle water has gone through the filling process they are checked
through power energy light manual for organisms.
Okwara also showed our correspondent, a production
line of personnel that smell each bottle as they arrive from customers to check
for bad odor noting that “sometimes we have discovered that some customers
after exhausting the content of the bottle result to using it for storing
kerosene.
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