what sort of wood to make a chopping board out off

[garageman]

hi guys well today i decided that i would start back into woodworking so my 1st project would be a nice chopping board but wat sort of wood can i use could i use scarp 2#4s but how would it go touching rw food could i get sick i need some help on this just looking for some ok quality wood for my first chopping board i wanna do two dif types of wood like side by side
so wat wood can i use please help me ohhh and if you like in australia do you think i could get it at bunnings

[Peter36]

If you do a search on the WWF you would come up with a few answers.
Here are some
The first guy ,Jordancoe,in this search used pine and tassie oak. Should be able to get them from Bunnings