European and African nations have reached agreement at the World Conference Against Racism. An Iowa murder trial has uncovered some hotels in the state only change bedspreads once every three months. Division of Criminal Investigation criminologists have told jurors in a murder trial they found 106 stains on a hotel bedspread. Iowa hotels do not have to provide clean bedspreads, but sheets, pillowcases and towels have to be changed after each guest.
Maids usually do sight tests when they clean rooms.
If the bedspread has a visible stain, it's removed. Otherwise it's not. There are some sanitation issues, especially with the hepatitis B virus, which lives in body fluids and can last a week or longer. But I do think the hotel and lodging organisations are more aware today of these bio-security issues. Judy Harrison, chief of the state's cleanliness enforcement agency, says bedspreads haven't been a problem during inspections.