加利福尼亚州将成为首个禁止生产或安装人造石英的州，原因是为厨房台面切割这种材料的工人中出现了越来越多致命的肺部疾病病例。该州将成为首个封禁这一与工人致命肺病有关的行业的州。
California is set to become the first state to ban the production or installation of man-made quartz, amid mounting cases of a lethal lung disease among workers who carve the material for kitchen countertops. The state would be the first to block an industry that has been connected to a deadly lung disease in workers.