Definitions

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  • verb transitive perform the process of pasteurisation

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  • verb heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms

Etymologies

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Borrowing from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ise

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Examples

  • I forgot to mention ... pasteurise your honey if you don't know it is already pasteurised.

    Resolution: Read more blogs. Ann Althouse 2009

  • But Prolacta is aiming to buy donated breast milk from independent milk banks and hospitals across the US, pasteurise it and sell it back to hospitals to treat low-birth weight babies.

    Firm to Commercialise Breast Milk | Impact Lab 2005

  • I don't believe we can draw any clear link between website rantings - even illustrated with crosshairs - and the Tucson shootings; and I don't believe we should be doing anything to suppress or even to pasteurise the vast internet symposium.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The companies have decided to pasteurise all their fresh stocks of eggs to kill off any salmonella bacteria.

    Channel NewsAsia Front Page News 2010

  • In a closed-loop nutrient recycling process, food waste would be brought to an AD plant and heat treated to pasteurise it, killing off any pathogens.

    RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds 2010

  • The companies have decided to pasteurise all their fresh stocks of eggs to kill off any salmonella bacteria.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • In this guide I'll explain how to pasteurise the juice.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Biotechnology company Safe Eggs has developed technology to pasteurise eggs with the aim of improving the safeness of eggs for consumption.

    Engineering News | Home 2009

  • They can also be used to pasteurise water, thus saving lives.

    IPS Inter Press Service 2009

  • Community Chef CEO Hayden Raysmith said the company would pasteurise the meals to give them a

    Star News Group 2009

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  • JM understands that pasteurise is too far to see.

    August 13, 2011