BIG CRAYON MAKER SAYS IT HAD QUIT USING TALC; TESTS FIND NO ASBESTOS.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: June 3, 2000| Author: Schneider, Andrew | Copyright information

America's second-largest crayon maker, Rose Art, says its crayons no longer are made with talc, and new tests conducted for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer show no signs of cancer-causing asbestos.

Rose Art was one of three crayon brands in which laboratories hired by the P-I found tremolite and anthophyllite asbestos in repeated tests conducted earlier this year. The other two brands were Crayola and Prang. Asbestos was found in 32 of 40 crayons tested.

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