Community | July 16, 2011 | 8 comments

Letting Your Kid Play In a McDonald’s PlayPlace Means They’re Probably Covered In Poop

source: http://gizmodo.com/5821876/letting-your-kid-play-in-a-mcdonalds-playplace-means-theyre-proba...

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Kwame Opam — Remember the joy you felt climbing through the tunnels at your McDonald's PlayPlace? Yeah, me too. And I don't particularly remember getting sick. But according to Erin Carr-Jordan's independent findings, we were all playing wrist-deep in pretty gnarly bacteria. Fun!

Dr. Carr-Jordan, a professor of developmental psychology and mother of four, has spent the last few months investigating the play structures of more than fifty fast food franchises, including McDonald's, Burger King, and Chuck E. Cheese's. After sending cultures to a lab, she found evidence of "coliform, four different kinds of staph, likely meningitis and gonorrhea, and more."

Scary stuff. And her findings were from a broad swath of restaurants, from rich and poor areas. All this in spite of the fact that most companies have some kind of protocol regarding play areas. Meanwhile, food departments don't typically inspect the structures as part of the restaurant, letting the problem go unchecked.

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8 comments // Letting Your Kid Play In a McDonald’s PlayPlace Means They’re Probably Covered In Poop // Video

  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • And considering how few people are reported to get sick from them, this is totally blown out of proportion.

      What do you think people did before soap and running water/sewage? Any idea how much ecoli is present in your backyard?

    • 10 months ago
  • WagonMaster
  • juicie
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      juicie  

    • Newsflash...Poop is EVERYWHERE. Just don't touch an orifice without washing your hands or using a tissue, problem solved.

      Being exposed to this stuff is a good thing if you have a regular immune system. If it is compromised, stay the hell away.

    • 10 months ago
  • Persecuted
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      Persecuted  

    • what protocol exactly does mcdonalds have regarding the play land? they need to be disinfected daily... i worked at mcdonalds for 2 years when i was a teenager and can recall having seen or heard of the tubes being cleaned one time...and that was because we were closed for renovation and didnt have anything else to do...

    • 10 months ago
  • NiceN
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      NiceN  

    • What did you expect from these play places, the young children playing in these often poop directly into the play sites.

    • 10 months ago
  • bailey78
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • Just a few more reasons I stay out of public areas.. You are not as clean as you think you are. Wash your hands and keep yourself clean Oh and the children.

    • 10 months ago
  • lordsbassman
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