3 Crayon Firms Agree To Remake Products

The Washington Post | June 13, 2000| | Copyright

The nation's top three crayon manufacturers have agreed to reformulate their product to eliminate an ingredient that may contain asbestos or asbestos-like fibers, after Consumer Product Safety Commission tests found small amounts of the cancer-causing material in some crayons.

The findings, to be announced formally today, were not considered serious enough to warrant a recall, CPSC officials said. They believe the crayons now on the market pose an extremely low health risk to children because the fibers are embedded in wax.

Even so, the agency urged crayon makers to quickly come up with a ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

GEORGE M. VOGEL | JANET (OKAPAL) BRACKETT | BRUCE R. HAMPER | GEORGE LAKE BELK | ELSIE (PRESLEY) HUGHES | LESTER C. JAMES, JR. | MARJEAN J. SCHILLINGER | KENT MILLER DOANE | PAUL E. SWEIGART
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL) ; ...they moved to Marion, where George worked as a welder for the...Mary Jane's death in 1961, George moved north to Elburn, where...Legion Headquarters, at 675 E. Washington St., Oswego, Illinois...remembered and profoundly missed. George Lake Belk Oswego Township George...
Emery David Doane Jr. Admini ... [Correction 10/22/08] [Correction 10/22/08]
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...first wife, Vera Nell Doane, died in 2001. Survivors...six years, Ruth Howard Doane of Boise; three children...marriage, Emery David Doane III of Oakton, Tracy...childhood development at George Washington University. She worked...
Margaret Kloman Doane.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot ; ...WILLIAMSBURG - Margaret Kloman Doane died Aug. 25, 2009, at...to her mother's, Susan Doane, family home in Phoebus...School and attended Mary Washington College. She graduated from George Washington University in 1970 with a...
Schedule; Today; CB East vs. George Washington, 7 [Derived headline]
Newspaper article from: The Intelligencer ; ...OOTBALLface=-Bold; CB East vs. George Washington, 7 p.m. (at Northeast...North Penn, 3:45 p.m. Doane Academy at Morrisville, 4...p.m. Solebury School at Doane Academy, 4 p.m. George School at Penn Charter, 4...
George Henry Bahm, 98, retired rear admiral.(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald ; George Henry Bahm of West Yarmouth...Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington and participated in the Quebec...Bahm is survived by a son, George Christopher of Boca Raton...Arlington National Cemetery. Doane, Beal and Ames Funeral Home...
Agriculture leaders hail President's Soviet credits announcement; push for passage of trade agreement. (Citizens Network's National Agricultural Advisory Committee, George Bush)
PR Newswire ; ...CREDITS ANNOUNCEMENT; PUSH FOR PASSAGE OF TRADE AGREEMENT WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the Citizens Network...Echoing that theme was H. Gene Koch, president and CEO of Doane Agricultural Services, Inc., and a member of the National...
Some American Bishops' Letters to E. B. Pusey
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History ; ...letters from two American bishops-Doane of New Jersey and Whittingham of...such letters, mostly from Bishop Doane, but also from bishops Hopkins...principal and chapter of Pusey House. George Washington Doane (1799-1859) became the second...
In crash's wake, relief and sadness
Newspaper article from: Maryland Gazette ; ...route to Baltimore-Washington International Airport...mental images. Kimberly Doane, 11, was on her front...were in there," Mrs. Doane said. Neither Mr. Doane nor the homeowner could...Education Center and George T. Cromwell Elementary...
A Letter from England: John Keble to Benjamin Holmes, 10 July 1833*
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History ; ...William Rollinson Whittingham and George Washington Doane. Whittingham, later bishop...the General Seminary, where Doane had arrived just one year earlier...Holmes's relationship with George Washington Doane was facilitated by Doane's...
In wake of plane crash, Ferndale is relieved, sad
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis) ; ...route to Baltimore-Washington International Airport...mental images. Kimberly Doane, 11, was on her front...after the crash, Mrs. Doane said. Neither Mr. Doane nor the homeowner could...Education Center and George T. Cromwell Elementary...

Find more facts and information related to the article "3 Crayon Firms Agree To Remake Products"