I have my son bought these pins. The pins sticking in the package and can only be solved by a little violence. This part of the subjects that are mapped to the crayons remain "stuck" in the package. The many positive reviews I can not understand. Pens are processed correctly cheap and heavily in the color they are not. I thought this expensive pens are sure of high quality and value for money. Far from it. Country of Origin is the way the United States. Now that I've read the report about these crayons in the Ökotest, I'm flabbergasted! Unbelievable that something still can be sold! The pins are now landed in the trash. Here again the test result:
Ökotest, Issue 10/2011: In the laboratory analysis of the content of the found replacement plasticizer ATBC and TXIB was more than 1,000 mg / kg. So far it is not possible to give for these substitutes a safe assessment of the risk to humans. In the hexagonal Crayola crayons continue aromatic amines in the mines were found. These amines are part of azo-colors and have been found in animal studies to be carcinogenic. In the black mine the content of the amine 3.3-dichlorobenzidine was even more 100 milligrams (depreciation from 5 mg / kg). The test result in the ingredients was therefore 'insufficient'.