Editing Crayon (section)

===Today===
[[File:One Made it.jpg|thumb|An assortment of Crayola crayons]]
Beyond Crayola, other [[brand name]] crayon manufacturers today include [[Rose Art Industries]] and [[Dixon Ticonderoga]], the successor to the American Crayon Company. Numerous suppliers create [[generic brand]] or [[store brand]] crayons. These are typically found in supermarkets.

In 2000, there was concern about potential contamination of [[asbestos]] in many popular brands of crayons after the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' reported in May of that year that they had tests performed finding that three brands of crayons contained asbestos.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.commondreams.org/headlines/052300-02.htm|title=Major brands of kids' crayons contain asbestos, tests show|author=Andrew Schneider|author2=Carol Smith|date=May 23, 2000|access-date=December 19, 2009|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525061550/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/052300-02.htm|archive-date=May 25, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> In a follow-up study released in June the [[Consumer Product Safety Commission|U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]] (CPSC) found traces of asbestos fibers in three crayons and larger amounts of transitional fibers which can be misinterpreted as asbestos<!-- probably need to cite here somehow that these fibers are often mistaken for asbestos, see http://www.olympus-sis.com/en/6900_6928.htm --> as a result of using talc as a binding agent in additional crayons. CPSC declared the risk to be low, but said that because of the concerns it had asked manufacturers to reformulate the concerned crayons and commended them for their swift agreement to do so.<ref>{{cite web|title=CPSC Releases Test Results on Crayons, Industry to reformulate|url=http://cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml00/00123.html|date=June 13, 2000|access-date=December 19, 2009|publisher=U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721033913/http://cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml00/00123.html|archive-date=July 21, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpsc.gov/LIBRARY/FOIA/foia00/os/crayons.pdf|title=CPSC Staff Report on Asbestos Fibers in Children's Crayons|date=August 2000|access-date=2009-11-18|publisher=U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826233121/http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia00/os/crayons.pdf|archive-date=2009-08-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/crayons.asp|title=Crayon Me a River|date=December 31, 2005|access-date=December 19, 2009}}</ref>