Melissa & Doug 10 Jumbo Triangular Crayons (for ages 3+): Non-detect for Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic, Mercury & Antimony

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Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).

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Published Tuesday, April 21, 2020

When tested with a high-precision XRF instrument, the Melissa & Doug Jumbo Triangular Crayons set (pictured above) had the readings listed below (broken out by color of crayon). All tests on each color crayon were repeated multiple times in order to confirm the accuracy of the testing. Test results reported on this website are science-based, replicable, and accurate — within the limits of the specific testing methodology (i.e. consumer goods testing using a high-precision XRF instrument specifically designed and calibrated for testing consumer goods for metals down to single digit parts per million). The results I focus on for accuracy (in repeating tests) are any detected amounts of heavy metal toxicants, including Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic, Antimony, and Mercury. This is the same testing methodology used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to help ensure children’s products are safe for sale in the United States today.

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#1.) Red Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 575 +/- 153 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 222 +/- 37 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 18 +/- 7 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 442 +/- 22 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 712 +/- 197 ppm

#2.) Orange Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 517 +/- 150 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 223 +/- 38 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 3,271 +/- 64 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 937 +/- 199 ppm

#3.) Yellow Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test 

• Barium (Ba): 566 +/- 153 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 18 +/- 11 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 220 +/- 35 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 437 +/- 21 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 818 +/- 189 ppm

#4.) Blue Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Bismuth (Bi): 5 +/- 3 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 397 +/- 94 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 188 +/- 11 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 224 +/- 24 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 3,536 +/- 57 ppm

#5.) Green Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 520 +/- 141 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 289 +/- 21 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 252 +/- 39 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 2,474 +/- 54 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 3,656 +/- 277 ppm

#6.) Dark Blue Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 574 +/- 146 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 825 +/- 30 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 194 +/- 33 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 440 +/- 21 ppm

#7.) Purple Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 552 +/- 151 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 189 +/- 35 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 410 +/- 20 ppm

#8.) Black Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 312 +/- 138 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 30 +/- 12 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 229 +/- 35 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 2,283 +/- 48 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 273 +/- 170 ppm

#9.) Pink Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 617 +/- 115 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 209 +/- 36 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 13,500 +/- 200 ppm

#10.) Brown Jumbo Triangular Crayon — 180-second test

• Barium (Ba): 698 +/- 145 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 71 +/- 16 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 137 +/- 35 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 3,019 +/- 59 ppm
• Chlorine (Cl): 764 +/- 187 ppm

Some additional reading that may be of interest to the folks reading:

• Information about how I conduct the testing I do
• Articles with more crayons we have tested
• More Melissa & Doug items we have tested

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you for reading and sharing these articles!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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