pasteurization

(noun)

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

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Examples of pasteurization in the following topics:

  • Pasteur and Spontaneous Generation

    • Louis Pasteur's 1859 experiment is widely seen as having settled the question.
    • In summary, Pasteur boiled a meat broth in a flask that had a long neck that curved downward, like a goose.
    • Many of these residual objections were routed by the work of John Tyndall, succeeding the work of Pasteur.
    • By sterilizing a food source and keeping it isolated from the outside, Pasteur observed no putrefaction of the food source (top panel).
    • Upon exposure to the outside environment, Pasteur observed the putrefaction of the food source (bottom panel).
  • History of Microbiology: Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, and Cohn

    • By boiling the broth beforehand, Pasteur ensured that no microorganisms survived within the broths at the beginning of his experiment.
    • Nothing grew in the broths in the course of Pasteur's experiment.
    • Thus, Pasteur dealt the death blow to the theory of spontaneous generation and supported germ theory instead.
    • The famous scientist Louis Pasteur, one of the founders of microbiology.
    • Explain how Van Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Pasteur, Cohn and Koch contributed to the field of microbiology
  • Origins of Antimicrobial Drugs

    • The era of antimicrobials begins when Pasteur and Joubert discover that one type of bacteria could prevent the growth of another.
    • The history of antimicrobials begins with the observations of Pasteur and Koch, who discovered that one type of bacteria could prevent the growth of another.
  • Antibiotic Discovery

    • Louis Pasteur observed, "if we could intervene in the antagonism observed between some bacteria, it would offer perhaps the greatest hopes for therapeutics".
    • Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.
    • Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist best known for their experiments supporting the Germ theory of disease, and for his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies.
  • Modern Microbiology

    • Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch were contemporaries of Cohn's and are often considered to be the father of microbiology and medical microbiology, respectively.
    • Pasteur is most famous for his series of experiments designed to disprove the then widely held theory of spontaneous generation, thereby solidifying microbiology's identity as a biological science.
    • Pasteur also designed methods for food preservation (pasteurization) and vaccines against several diseases such as anthrax, fowl cholera, and rabies.
    • While Pasteur and Koch are often considered the founders of microbiology, their work did not accurately reflect the true diversity of the microbial world because of their exclusive focus on microorganisms having direct medical relevance.
  • Intro and major themes

    • Pasteur thought um, no stuff doesn’t just magically become alive, but he had to prove it.
    • Pasteur Flask helped prove that it was not magic that living things came from
  • Fermented Foods

    • Historically, when studying the fermentation of sugar to alcohol by yeast, Louis Pasteur concluded that the fermentation was catalyzed by a vital force, called "ferments," within the yeast cells.
  • Synthetic Antimicrobial Drugs

    • The history of antimicrobials begins with the observations of Pasteur and Joubert, who discovered that one type of bacteria could prevent the growth of another.
  • Koch and Pure Culture

    • Working with very limited resources, he became one of the founders of bacteriology, the other major figure being Louis Pasteur.
  • Pathogenic Escherichia coli

    • Food and Drug Administration, the fecal-oral cycle of transmission can be disrupted by cooking food properly, preventing cross-contamination, instituting barriers such as gloves for food workers, instituting health care policies so food industry employees seek treatment when they are ill, pasteurization of juice or dairy products and proper hand washing requirements.
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