Why you should throw the rubber duck out with the bathwater

A new study shows that these bathtime toys are teeming with bacteria. And if they don’t poison you, your washing machine or chopping board mightWant your child to have a hygienic bathtime? Then ditch their rubber duck. That’s one implication of work by a research team led by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, which has found these particular bath toys to be teeming with bacteria. The key issue with the mucky duck is that it is often made from cheap polymer