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A report by ABC's
Good Morning America found that play areas at fast food restaurants may be harboring harmful germs and bacteria.
The report said a mother who is trying to get standards in place for how restaurant play areas should be cleaned helped make the discovery.
Erin Carr-Jordan, the mother who performed the research, said she found clumps of hair, rotting food and gang graffiti, among other things, when she followed her toddler into a play tube at a fast-food restaurant play area.
"It was like getting hit with a brick, it was so disgusting," she told ABC's
Good Morning America. "There was filth everywhere, there was black on the walls and it was sticky and there was grime inside the connecting tubes."
Carr-Jordan said she felt restaurant managers were not responsive to her complaints so she felt compelled to start taking video cameras with her to post what she had found on YouTube.
She also spent several thousand dollars of her own money on testing samples at nine restaurants in seven states from restaurants like McDonald's, Burger King, and Chuck E. Cheese's.
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