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Characterized by short latency, accelerated progression, and high morbidity and mortality, AS silicosis disproportionately affects young workers employed in precarious conditions. In response to the growing global burden of disease, this American Thoracic Society workshop was convened in 2025 to review the current state of knowledge regarding AS silicosis, synthesize the current evidence, and identify priorities for research, clinical care, public health surveillance, and prevention.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Workshop participants reviewed data spanning exposure science, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, health equity, and policy responses. Evidence demonstrates that artificial stone (AS) dust is highly toxic, containing high concentrations of respirable crystalline silica, resin-derived volatile compounds, and trace metals, resulting in exposures that routinely exceed occupational exposure limits. Despite widespread implementation of wet methods, ventilation, and respiratory protection, hazardous exposures persist across diverse settings globally, highlighting fundamental limitations of existing control strategies. Clinically, AS silicosis is associated with high rates of progressive massive fibrosis, autoimmune disease, infection, respiratory failure, and increasing need for lung transplantation. Treatment options remain limited, underscoring the importance of early detection and exposure cessation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The workshop identified critical gaps in medical screening and public health surveillance worldwide, with inconsistent regulatory frameworks, low compliance, underreporting, and delayed diagnoses. Case detection is often dependent on symptomatic presentation rather than proactive screening, exacerbating disease severity and inequities in care. International experiences illustrate both the consequences of regulatory inaction and the potential impact of decisive interventions, including Australia\u2019s prohibition of crystalline silica\u2013containing artificial stone.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This report concludes that AS silicosis represents a failure of primary prevention and calls for coordinated global action. Key priorities include strengthening surveillance systems, ensuring equitable access to screening and care, developing effective therapeutics, advancing exposure science, and implementing higher-order preventive strategies, including the elimination or substitution of high-silica AS. Without urgent and sustained intervention, these products will continue to impose devastating and avoidable harm on workers worldwide.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/annalsats\/aaoag176","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,27]],"date-time":"2026-06-27T08:28:24Z","timestamp":1782548904000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Silicosis in the Artificial Stone Countertop Industry: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report"],"prefix":"10.1093","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3156-7619","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sheiphali A","family":"Gandhi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of California San Francisco , Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine"},{"name":"Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine , San Francisco, 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