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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiny particles of dust produced while cutting, shaping and polishing synthetic quartz put workers making popular countertops at ...

This countertop choice is less prone to scratches than wood and usually more affordable than marble, so it's not difficult to ...

Quartz is a popular choice for beautiful kitchen countertops thanks to its durability, style, and resistance to stains. Unlike natural stone surfaces, it's engineered to be nonporous – that means it ...

Countertops made of the engineered stone "quartz" are incredibly popular, but public health experts say cutting this material unsafely can expose... California is poised to become the first state in ...

California is poised to become the first state in the country to adopt special measures to protect workers who make kitchen and bathroom countertops out of a popular kind of artificial stone known as ...