0 the process of heating something, especially milk, at a controlled temperature for a fixed period of time in order to kill bacteria: --
The system of pasteurization, if extended, is a real danger in that respect.
I am putting these ideas forward in order to show the dangers of pasteurization.
We have jumped to conclusions about the pasteurization of milk, and many people to-day are ready to say that that should be compulsory.
We have been told that this system of making milk safe by pasteurization is likely to drive the small producer-retailer out of business.
Pasteurization of raw milk was recommended.
Cooking or pasteurization, however, will inactivate it.
Although milk sold as pasteurized has a critical control point in the form of heat treatment, producers have no room for complacency as pasteurization failures can occur.
Cities in the period before rapid motor transport, pasteurization and refrigeration could suffer painful reminders of their intimate dependency on the agricultural land immediately around them.