If you take a look here, there's quite a bit of dirt on the floor and you could tell that the disaster of floodwater has come up into some of the cabinets and even the dishwasher, so before you start doing any work with the food and the utensils you really have to clean up. Quite a bit any of the sinks and the food contact surface areas and the floors. Now, what you need to remember is your sanitizer will not be effective, as long as there is quite a bit of dirt. The first thing to do is to clean up the dirt very good because this would tend, otherwise to bind the sanitizer and you would not get a killing effect with such a sense of loss. One of the things that people might tend to do is to try to save as much food, as possible and we really don't want to encourage this, because of a lot the food may be contaminated and the rule of thumb being food safety is, if in doubt throw it out and all the food that was in here that came in contact with floodwaters have been dumped, just throw it away and it doesn't attempt to save it and follow any cleaning, whatever you could see.
The potatoes here, that have come in touch with floodwaters and some tomatoes, and some open containers of different things flour and sugar. All of this that had come in contact with flood water has to be thrown away and this cupboard had food and did not come in contact with the floodwater. It did not come up that high however, some of the foods are in open containers and since we have to assume the flood water had sewage in it. Some microbes
are carried through the air and anything that thought in an open container should be thrown away, even products that were partially opened. Even if the safety is not seriously compromised and the quality is already has deteriorated quite a bit and you don't want to eat this product. We found out that the floodwater had gone into the dishwasher and the dishwasher was full one thing and you want to check out. Before starting your dishwasher, make sure that the water service has been restored and the sewage system is running.
Now everything that was in here has touched the floodwater, so it needs either to be thrown away or disinfected things made of rubber plastic and wood. This item cannot be sanitized effectively because of the microbes, hide in small pores. In there, things like this have to be thrown away and again, wood, plastic rubber, and dishes with severe cracks in them are all the other items and things that can be taken apart and need to be taken apart. All the others
have to be washed in clean hot water with detergent. Again, they need to be sanitized by following the guidelines
that we talked about before that and that is putting in a solution of liquid chlorine, two tablespoons of liquid chlorine
solution per gallon of water and then, you do not dry these with a cloth.