COMPOST

Still struggling to find my way around the site so probably posted this in the wrong place, but here goes.
I have read recently that I can add newspaper to the trench I have dug for my runner beans and also to my compost heap.  On CEEFAX today, page 120, it reports that recycled cardboard used for food packaging is contaminating food contents with toxic chemicals.  The chemicals are known as mineral oils and come from printing inks.  Does this mean that newspapers and other shredded printed matter could introduce these chemicals into the soil/roots?  I am about to take four bags of shredded paper to the plot.
Crumbly Oldy

Edit to correct title

It is COMPOST now, and so is your duplicate question which was in Chatting on the Plot, cos I've deleted it

This item was on the one o'clock news today and is a bit of a bombshell as of course it applies to cardboard as well as newspaper, both of which many of us use as compost ingrediients.

I've been trying to find advice on-line and up to now I've not got very far, although I certainly get the impression the that mineral inks are not readily biodegradable.

I'm certainly not about to dump all my precious compost and will pin my hopes to plant's ability to only take up what they need and also poor Mother Nature's ability to overcome most of the bad things the human race keeps challenging her with!

In the long term I think there will now be intense pressure for the inks we have always assumed to be safe to be replaced ASAP.