Issues surrounding potentially deadly engineered stone products in Australia will be ongoing for multiple decades, according to the workplace relations minister.
Following a meeting of workplace health and safety ministers, the national work safety watchdog is investigating a possible ban on silica products.
Products with high silica levels, most commonly seen in kitchen benchtops, have been linked to incurable lung disease and cancer.
Federal minister Tony Burke said regardless of what a ban on the products would look like, the products would leave a large impact.
“No matter what we do, this will be a problem in Australia for the next 40 or 50 years,” Burke told Sky News on Sunday….