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Anyone worried about the reports of mineral oils from newspaper inks getting into the food chain via recycling?

what about composting shredded newspaper?

I thought most newspapers were printed with soya inks these days - do they have mineral oil in them?

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

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.