• Keep children and pets out of the area until clean-up has been completed.

• Wear rubber gloves and boots. Use eye protection.

• Wash your hands thoroughly and launder clothes separately after completing the clean-up.

• Remove all furniture, loose rugs, and so on from the area.

• Saturated wall-to-wall carpeting (and the pad) usually cannot be adequately cleaned. They should be removed, wrapped in plastic, and taken to a transfer station or sanitary landfill. If you decide to keep the carpeting, hire a licensed carpet cleaning company to steam clean and disinfect the carpet.

• All hard surfaces, such as linoleum, hardwood floors, concrete, wood moldings, wood, and metal furniture, and on should be thoroughly cleaned with hot water and a mild detergent (dish detergent), and then rinsed with a bleach solution by mixing one tablespoon of liquid household unscented bleach to one gallon of water. Let the surface air dry.

• Upholstered furniture, loose rugs, drapery, and so on should be professionally cleaned. Notify the cleaner of the problem.

• Remove and replace plaster, plasterboard, and lath that have been saturated and are soft to the touch. If the surface has been wetted, clean as you would a hard surface, but do not saturate the plaster.

• Clean sinks, dishwashers, and other plumbing fixtures that have had sewage back-up with detergent, and then rinse with the bleach solution.

• Disinfect clean-up mops, brooms, and brushes with the bleach solution.
   

• Prevent mold growth and reduce odors by increasing air circulation -- open all windows and doors. The use of fans and heaters may speed this process.
   

• You can clean undamaged canned food:

1. Remove labels

2. Wash with a scrub brush in a detergent solution (use washed cans as soon as possible because they will rust)

3. Rinse in clean water

4. Sanitize by:
   • Boiling for 10 minutes, (Do not boil cans of carbonated beverages), or
   • Immersing cans in bleach solution for 15 minutes

5. Re-label with marker or grease pencil

• Discard

  • Sealed food items

  • Home canned foods

  • Food items packaged in paper or cardboard

  • Unpackaged foods such as fruit, potatoes, squash