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Campaign highlights dangers of crystalline silica dust in everyday industries

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Federal and state workplace safety ministers will consider banning popular engineered stone products over links to an incurable lung disease. Unions have labelled silicosis the next asbestosis with more than 600,000 workers in stone cutting industries potentially exposed to the dust.
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