If you’ve recently renovated a kitchen and had to choose a worktop material or if you’ve come across the subject of kitchen worktops at all, you sure know about quartz. With its marble-like appearance and low-maintenance nature, this engineered stone has become a popular kitchen worktop choice. But it has recently come under scrutiny due to potential health risks.
The much-loved kitchen worktop idea contains a substance called silica as does any of the other natural stones like marble and granite, only in a higher percentage. And it’s this that is earning quartz a bad rep as inhaling silica can lead to respiratory disease.
