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pasteurize

[pas-chuh-rahyz, pas-tuh-] / ˈpæs tʃəˌraɪz, ˈpæs tə- /




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"Our milk supply is extremely safe. We pasteurize it, but occasionally you'll get people who, for whatever reason, drink unpasteurized milk."

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2024

Gas is used across a range of processes that most people never see — to forge steel to make cars, make glass bottles and pasteurize milk and cheese.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

Then the banks thaw the milk, pool it, pasteurize it, test it, refreeze it, and send it where it’s needed.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022

“For them, solar cooking can reduce deforestation and soil erosion, and they can also use the cookers to pasteurize water where there’s a problem finding a potable supply.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

Apparatus of sufficient capacity to pasteurize on a commercial scale.

From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

The exhaust produced from the turbines then pasteurizes the wastewater, purifying it so it can be reused.

From Inc ● Jun. 8, 2012

Arethusa pasteurizes it just the way it comes out of the cows, making its whole milk about 4 percent butterfat.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2011

The study followed adults who drank 500ml of pure pasteurized orange juice every day for two months.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

In the early 2000s, McAfee was producing pasteurized milk for the dairy group Organic Valley when a raw-milk enthusiast named James Stewart made an unusual request.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Even after being squeezed and processed and pasteurized, the juice was gross.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

They point out that pasteurized milk has also been linked to outbreaks, although many scientists say raw milk is associated with a higher occurrence of foodborne illnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

In fact, in 1977, Florida boasted 53 different processing plants for crushing fruit, pasteurizing, or making fresh juice or frozen concentrate.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

They also note that cooking foods properly and pasteurizing dairy products inactivates the virus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration says pasteurizing milk kills the virus.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2024

Health experts cite the risk of foodborne illnesses from viruses such as salmonella, listeria, campylobacter and E. coli, which would typically be removed in the process of heating, or pasteurizing, the milk.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

If the milk is filthy, boiling or pasteurizing does not remove the dirt.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker




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