Industrial milk pasteurization
Pasteurización industrial de la leche
- Date
- 1886–1908 · confidence medium
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Credited to
- Franz von Soxhlet (proposal, Munich, 1886); Nathan Straus (New York, 1892); first mandatory pasteurisation law (Chicago, 1908); continuous HTST pasteuriser (1930s)
- People
- 👤 Franz von Soxhlet1848–1926👤 Louis Pasteur1822–1895👤 Nathan Straus1848–1931
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Industrial-scale application of the brief heating of milk that Pasteur discovered for wine (1864). It drastically reduced bovine tuberculosis, typhoid fever and urban infant mortality.
What it led to
- Fall in urban infant mortality
- Centralised dairy industry and long-life milk
- Sanitary regulation of food