MANUFACTURERS and retailers insist all their products are inspected rigorously before they are sent to customers.
Commenting on Gary Wong’s complaint that his table “exploded”, a spokesperson for a leading furniture store says: “Tempered glass is five to six times stronger than standard glass and does not break into sharp shards when it fails. The brittle nature of tempered glass causes it to shatter into small oval-shaped pebbles when broken.
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