The discovery of bird flu virus particles in the commercial milk supply has reignited public interest in the century-long debate over pasteurizing milk. Sales of raw milk, or milk that has not undergone the heat treatment process to kill harmful bacteria ...

Pasteurization, a long-practiced food processing method, has been at the center of a polarizing debate.

An Australian company called Naturo has revealed the development of a breakthrough milk processing technique that is heat-free, eliminates more pathogens than pasteurization, and leaves the milk with a refrigerated shelf life of up to 90 days, opening up ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), recently announced that the FDA-approved commercial milk pasteurization process effectively inactivates the Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza (H5N1 ...

When Louis Pasteur developed and patented the process of pasteurization in the 1860s, it had nothing to do with milk. He was more concerned with keeping beer from spoiling. But, by the turn of the century, this method of preservation had been adapted to ...

Fragments of the virus that causes bird flu have been found in samples of pasteurized milk, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday, but officials aren't concerned about danger to humans from drinking store-bought milk at this time. Officials told ...

India's dairy giants supply pasteurized milk, a heat-treated product designed to eliminate harmful bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella, making it safer for consumption. While the FDA deems further boiling unnecessary,