Article: Is Pasteurization More Of A Health Risk Or A Safety Benefit? Read This, Then You Tell Us What You Think!
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Is Pasteurization More Of A Health Risk Or A Safety Benefit? Read This, Then You Tell Us What You Think!
We're taught as early as elementary school about the French chemist Louis Pasteur and his famous invention: pasteurization. This is the process of heating food to kill bacteria, viruses, mold, yeasts and other potentially harmful organisms.
The first pasteurization test was performed back in 1862, after Pasteur noticed that microorganisms could contaminate beverages (he later extended this to the theory that microorganisms could contaminate humans and animals as well.). But pasteurization did not immediately become the gold standard for milk production in the United States.
In fact, at the end of the 19th century "swill dairies," in which cows were raised in horrible conditions and reportedly fed swill from liquor distilleries, were a major problem. The milk...
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