Buying fresh fish in old news papers

According to one ink company, wrapping fish (and chips) in newspapers is not harmful:

"the use of newspaper to wrap up greasy foods poses no risk to one’s health.  The constituents of the inks are harmless and apart from that, the amount of them actually on the surface of the paper is exceedingly small.  As a result of the increased use of coloured inks in the newspaper sector, the amount of ink on the surface is never any greater than 2 percent by weight, and anything that could find its way onto your chips would be minimal."

(Information from Huber Group)

I think the many fears people have about dangers to their food are exaggerated. I remember as a little boy going to the corner grocery store to buy sour cream. I brought a jar with me and the grocer sold it by the measure (his dipper). Today that would be totally unsanitary. But we survived and grew up. The same for fish.They were brought home in old newspapers which had the advantage of maintaining the moisture. Often these so-called dangers (newspaper ink for example) are in such miniscule quantities it would probably take several tons of newspapers to cause damage to health. Enjoy your fresh fish!!

Althoug the newspaper ink is considered "non Ecology friendly", experts from Huber Group claim that

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www.mhm.de/ti/ZD49102E.pdf