LONDON — Baby high chairs found in restaurants have been found to harbor more bacteria than the average public toilet seat, according to the Daily Mail.
Teams took swabs from high chairs in 30 different restaurants and found that, on average, the number of bacteria on a high chair — including some that can lead to serious illness — was 147 per square centimeter, the article stated.
By comparison, the average public toilet seat has just eight per square centimeter, the article noted.
"The test results varied considerably and while some of the high chairs were relatively clean, others had concentrations of bacteria as high as 1,200 bacteria per square centimeter, which is worrying," said Dr Nicholas Moon director of technical affairs at Microban, makers of antibacterial products, which conducted the research across a variety of restaurants.
"This is of concern because a child's immune system tends to be far less robust than an adult's and children tend to touch things and put their hands in their mouth a lot — so they easily infect themselves with any germs they encounter," Moon added.
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