Bob in St. Louis
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Hey all,
I want to build cutting boards and am wondering about food safety.
I do quite a bit of wood working, and a product I use quite a bit is a voidless Baltic Birch plywood. I think the cut end of the plywood when stacked (showing the ply layers) looks pretty cool. My goal is to make cutting boards with the entire top surface being the exposed layers.
I'm not worried about the glue I use, and I'm not worried about waterproofing the piece, but I'm very worried about the glue used at the plywood factory and whether it's food safe or not.
Picture a hot juicy steak fresh off the grill "bleeding out" laying on the cutting board soaking up chemicals.....
I've been told that voidless Russian plywoods are epoxied together and are 'automatically' food safe, but the people weren't 100% confident.
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!
Bob
I want to build cutting boards and am wondering about food safety.
I do quite a bit of wood working, and a product I use quite a bit is a voidless Baltic Birch plywood. I think the cut end of the plywood when stacked (showing the ply layers) looks pretty cool. My goal is to make cutting boards with the entire top surface being the exposed layers.
I'm not worried about the glue I use, and I'm not worried about waterproofing the piece, but I'm very worried about the glue used at the plywood factory and whether it's food safe or not.
Picture a hot juicy steak fresh off the grill "bleeding out" laying on the cutting board soaking up chemicals.....
I've been told that voidless Russian plywoods are epoxied together and are 'automatically' food safe, but the people weren't 100% confident.
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!
Bob