In the meantime, some kitchen companies, such as Kent-based Herringbone, have taken the matter into their own hands by vowing to only work with low-silica (40 per cent or lower) alternatives instead.
He described the dust he inhaled while cutting quartz kitchen worktops as leaving him "unable to breathe" and in "terrible pain." Earlier this year, Malik Al-Khalil, 28, contracted silicosis after ...