Those “playlands” are seriously contaminated. As noted by the LA Times:<\/p>\n
On a humid Monday morning, Erin Carr-Jordan was crawling through the tubey slides of a McDonald’s PlayPlace on the West Side.<\/p>\n
When she got to the top of the colorful structure, she peered through a cloudy plastic window and mouthed the words: “This is bad. This is really bad.”<\/p>\n
In recent months the 36-year-old mom and developmental psychologist from Arizona said she has visited and videotaped more than 50 such playlands as well as sending swabs for microbial testing.<\/p>\n
…A reporter crawled through a few minutes later to find sticky surfaces, filmy windows, several broken pieces of equipment, food morsels in every compartment, trapped hair, garbage and thick black schmutz in most crevices.<\/p>\n
…University of Arizona professor Chuck Gerba, who is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on germ transmission notes that children are major virus passers. “And viruses which cause diarrhea can survive up to a month on surfaces” such as playgrounds, he wrote in an email to the Tribune. “Bacteria like MRSA could also be transmitted by this route.”<\/p>\n
Carr-Jordan has been sending her swab samples to a lab that she said found staphylococcus and other bacteria. Annissa Furr, a microbiology professor in Arizona, is working with her to collect and analyze the data to spur legislators to act on the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h6GOGJUiXVE]<\/p>\n
Gross!\u00a0 If the crappy\u00a0food doesn’t keep\u00a0people away from McD’s et al., Maybe Carr-Jordan’s revelations will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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