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BLACK MUSHROOMS: Inside the oldest dolls and the eight-year-old doll, Mycoteam found mushrooms. Photo: Pernille V. Dvergedal / TV 2 helps you.
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The new doll, which has been cleaned after each bath, has a lot of bacteria inside.
– This doll here has a fairly rich yeast flora and a number of intestinal bacteria inside. Slightly more intestinal bacteria than the others, says Jenssen.
The bacteria come from the child it has bathed with.
However, no mold has been found, which may indicate that the cleaning process helps with mold, but not bacteria.
The manufacturer makes changes
German Zapf Creation AG is the company behind Baby Born. Wolfgang Hoffmann, CEO of Marketing and Product Development, says Baby Born is a safe toy:
– In general, it is known that toys, and especially those that are in contact with water, are exposed to pollution. Therefore, it is important to be very careful to follow our recommendations for the doll and clean and dry it properly according to the instructions. This will minimize the growth of mold, says Hoffmann.
He emphasizes that the older dolls over the age of 20 were not meant to be bathed with, but could be fed.
He acknowledges that all bath toys with holes in them are exposed to both fungi and bacteria, and that small children are exposed as they may swallow the water they bathe in. Therefore, the manufacturer changes the instructions for using the doll, henceforth they will advise against letting the doll bathe with the child.
– We completely agree with Tonje Reier-Nilsen. So if you wash, dry and respect this advice, then we believe that the doll is 100 percent safe, says Hoffmann.
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