- Flash pasteurization
Flash pasteurization is a method of heat
pasteurization of perishablebeverages like fruit and vegetable juices,beer , anddairy products . Compared to other pasteurization processes, it maintains color and flavor better.It is done prior to filling into containers in order to kill spoilage
microorganism s, to make the products safer and extend theirshelf life .The liquid moves in a controlled, continuous flow while subjected to temperatures of 71.5 °C (160 °F) to 74 °C (165 °F), for about 15 to 30 seconds, a ratio expressed as pasteurization units.
The process is more prevalent in
Europe andAsia than inNorth America .Fact|date=August 2008Flash pasteurization is widely used for fruit juices.
Tropicana has used flash pasteurization since the 1950s. [ [http://www.allbusiness.com/food-beverage/food-industry-food-mfg-canned/7295043-1.html press release] , Dec. 10, 1996] The juice companyOdwalla switched from non-pasteurised to flash-pasteurised juices in1996 after tainted unpasteurized apple juice containing sickened many children and killed one. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EFD91438F937A35752C1A960958260&sec=health&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink New York Times, Questions of Pasteurization Raised After E. Coli Is Traced to Juice, November 4, 1996] ]References
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B06E2DD1F39E533A25752C0A9679C94679FD7CF&oref=slogin The Pasteurization of Beer] -
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