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Name: Amy
Status: educator
Grade: N/A
Location: OR
Country: N/A
Date: 7/13/2005
Question:
I want to make a walnut chopping block for our kitchen. I've heard that walnut dust can be poisonous. Would a chopping block pose health hazards to humans?

Replies:
It should be okay. Please see the following:

http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Walnut_toxicity_fact_and_fiction.html

http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/fruits/blkwalnt.htm

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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