Is this compost going to be OK?

I've just opened one of two bags of J Arthur Bowers Multi Purpose compost, that I got two for £5, to find that it contains a large proportion of little chips of wood. They're bright bits too - so I think they'll be freshly chipped, not composted.

This is defintiely not what I got two years ago, when I bought this exact same product. If I'd seen what was in the bag before I bought it, I wouldn't have!

Is it going to be OK? I'm starting to use it to plant my red onion seeds, leeks, tomatoes, winter squash etc.

I seem to remember people being advised not to mix fresh wood chips, sawdust etc in their soil, yet here it is in compost.

Any views?

So long as there aren't too many you should be OK.  However the advice that it's generally fine to mix sawdust and wood chip into soil is wrong as they rob the soil of nitrogen as they decompose.

Thanks everyone. If i remember, i'll take a pic of it and post here.

John I bought 3 bags for a tenner from our local nursery it does have the odd wood chipping in but always black and never fresh.

I have riddled it and used it as seed compost and had 100% germination with Cauli, cabbage, calebrese, lettuce, rocket and leeks, and used it as is for potting on as it is so I think you should be ok.