Pasteurisation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Heat-treatment of a perishable food to destroy heat-sensitive vegetative cells followed by immediate cooling to limit growth of the surviving cells and germination of spores. UK, countable, uncountable

    "Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation."

  2. 2
    partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food wordnet

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"Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation."

Etymology

From French pasteurisation, from the surname of its inventor, Louis Pasteur.

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