Proportion of Clorox to Water

• Start sanitizing your home by looking at every room and surface that needs treatment. Adding a small amount of Clorox bleach to water will give you a solution that will clean and sanitize the areas of your home that you need to give attention to.
  
  Add one-half teaspoon of Clorox--regular unscented--to one quart of water, to use for general sanitizing. If you use Clorox Ultra Bleach, adding one-half teaspoon of Clorox to a quart of water will give you a stronger sanitizing solution. Items you're sanitizing should stay in contact with the Clorox/water solution for at least one minute.
  
  You can mix a solution of one part Clorox Bleach to 10 parts of water (1:10). This is a very strong sanitizing solution, so use rubber gloves to protect your hands and wear a bib apron. To make a sanitizing solution of this strength, add 0.4 cup of Clorox to one quart of water. This will give you a solution of 5,250 parts per million (ppm) of chlorine.
  
  

Areas of the Home to Sanitize

• Use the solution described in an earlier section to sanitize your kitchen and areas where food makes contact with surfaces such as counters, the sink, stove, outside of the refrigerator and floor. If your kitchen or dining room table is not made of wood, use the same solution to sanitize the tabletop. Put dirty dishes in the same strength solution of Clorox and water to sanitize them before washing.
  
  In your bathroom and around your baby's changing table, use the strongest solution. This solution is strong enough that you can use it in a sickroom or where someone recovering from injury is staying.
  
  You can also sanitize your children's toys, but use the weaker solution described earlier. Sanitize your baby's bottles and bottle nipples in the solution described above for a period of one minute, then rinse them completely before you put fresh formula in the bottle. Add a teaspoon of Clorox Bleach to your pet's water bowl, then rinse it thoroughly before giving him fresh water.