Industry best practice in damp cleaning/sanitizing, to avoid cross contamination, uses different colored microfiber cloth wipes for different areas - say, green for general office, red for restrooms, blue for glass - to avoid using the same cloth on the toilet and the desk.  Good idea.

My concern (at least this morning) is within the restrooms.  Using one cloth for the entire restroom - toilets, stall walls, sinks, counters and door knobs - allows cross contamination among all these surfaces. One might use one cloth for toilets, another for sinks, a third for stall walls, a forth for door knobs, and so on, but still transfer contaminates from one toilet to another - and have to differentiate between a lot of cloths (and they don't make them in that many colors).

Therefore, we do not use cloths in restrooms at all.  Instead, we use paper towels, disposing them between fixtures, or between areas (then applying disinfectant).  While I'm not happy about "wasting" towels, I think it preferable to spreading pathogens.   Until a better idea comes along.

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