Article: Are Ball Pits the Playground for Potentially Harmful Bacteria?(fast food restaurants' children play areas)

Article: BALL PITS' DIRTY LITTLE SECRET.(Home Front)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... appearance, children's indoor plastic ball pits have had their health and safety problems. People who clean the ball pits report finding everything from used ... stopped trying to sell his clients ball pits and started trying to persuade them ...

Article: Ball pits depart for serbia.
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  November 24, 2008 ;     503 words ... ... Battledown Children's Centre in Cheltenham kindly donated ball pits which will help bring smiles to some of the needy children ... equipment and funding for the children. On Thursday night, the ball pits and squashy play shapes, which were being stored in Evesham ...

Article: Laugh riot; `Mudslingers' Ball' pits left vs. right ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Political humorists on the comedy circuit are as rare as rosary beads at Bob Jones University. "Most clubs don't like to book more than one political show a year," groused Tim Slagle. A Chicago standup with a right-wing slant, Slagle finds his pungent brand of politico-comic commentary a hard sell.

Article: FAST-FOOD PLAYGROUNDS WHEN IT'S COLD OR WET ...
The Virginian Pilot;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... feeds her preschooler fast food for lunch. In fact ... indoor playgrounds at fast food restaurants for some sanity ... up their jungle gyms, ball pits and crawl tubes. It ... moms. Thea Justice works fast-food playgrounds into her home ...

Article: Woman stuck by syringe at fast-food play area.
The Boston Herald;  September 2, 1999 ;     530 words ... ... Corporation's restaurants adhere to strict cleaning procedures, which include the routine cleansing of equipment, pads, floors, ball pits and play balls." Cavanaugh said police have not experienced any prior health problems at this particular Burger King.

Article: Research Reveals New Information On Latex.(Brief Article)
Immunotherapy Weekly;  September 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... severe reactions while playing in ball pits at fast food restaurants, according to a ... plastic balls in an American style fast-food outlet. Two months later, a ... the play ball pit of another fast food outlet belonging to the same ...

Article: Ubiquity of Latex.
Pediatric News;  October 1, 2001 ;     516 words ... ... children presented on separate occasions with severe anaphylactic reactions after playing in plastic-ball pits at two different fast food locations of the same franchise (J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 108[2]:298-300, 2001). A 5-year ...