Eight local tempered glass manufacturers were ordered to suspend production after failing quality tests, Shanghai's Quality and Technical Bureau, the local quality watchdog has said. Their substandard products are now being recalled. This follows a spate of incidents in the city involving safety glass shattering. The latest occurred in August 2013 when a 3-square-metre glass door between a Starbucks outlet and other businesses in the Ra City building at People's Square shattered. No one was injured. The bureau checked 67 batches of tempered glass for construction use in its latest inspection and found eight had "serious quality problems" which posed safety risks. These included failing tests of fragmentation, surface stress and impact resistance.
