Anyone worried about the reports of mineral oils from newspaper inks getting into the food chain via recycling?
what about composting shredded newspaper?
Mineral oils
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Re: Mineral oils
I thought most newspapers were printed with soya inks these days - do they have mineral oil in them? 
Maggie
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Re: Mineral oils
The very air we breathe is contaminated with a host of ...errrm... contaminants. We live in a world which produces contaminants merely because it exists. It's that or a return to the purer world of the Mesolithic Age - which is not going to happen. Such stories as the newspaper ink thing are there purely and simply to raise a reaction from a naive readership. The act of reading the newspaper would smear your skin with more contaminants than would ever leak through to your corn flakes.
It's sensationalism, and I stopped worrying about such rubbish a rather high number of years ago.
Mike
It's sensationalism, and I stopped worrying about such rubbish a rather high number of years ago.
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Re: Mineral oils
no not worried at all ... but then i rarely use the things reported to be contaminated.
in all honesty the plastic bag is more likely to contaminate more than the recycled board.
in all honesty the plastic bag is more likely to contaminate more than the recycled board.