Are landscape timbers safe to use for building a raised bed for vegetable gardening?

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raised bed gardening
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It was a lot of fun (and so fast!) to build these beds with Green City Growers [1] Also, vermiculite is amazing stuff–it’s the consistency of styrofoam, but made out of VOLCANIC ROCK.

[1] growmycitygreen.com

Question by Brokn: Are landscape timbers safe to use for building a raised bed for vegetable gardening?
The tag says they are “treated to rejection” Does this type of pressure treated landscape timbers have toxins that will leach into our soil and will the vegetables grown in that area be unsafe to eat?

The timbers are Micropro AC2 if that means anything to anyone

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