Pasteurization at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Pasteurization? The heating of milk, wines, fruit juices, etc., for about thirty minutes at 68C (154.4F) whereby the living bacteria are destroyed, but the flavor or bouquet is preserved; the spores are unaffected, but are kept from developing by immediately cooling th

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