Defend the following statement: “Pasteurization is not sterilization.”

Question

Accepted Answer

Hi, everyone. Our next question says which one among these statements best describes the difference between pasteurization and sterilization. A pasteurization uses chemicals while sterilization uses radiation B. Sterilization eliminates every form of microbial life. But pasteurization doesn't see pasteurization increases shelf life but sterilization reduces it. Or D sterilization makes food unsafe for consumption, but pasteurization makes it safe. Well, both of these processes are processes that kill microbes and reduce microbial load. So we can eliminate choice C and choice D um Choice C says that sterilization reduces shelf life but anything that kills microbes is not going to reduce shelf life. In addition, when it says sterilization makes food unsafe for consumption. Well, it might not, he's great but it's not going to make it unsafe again because it kills microbes. So cnd just don't really make logical sense in the context of the question. Now, we just need to remember looking at other answer choices. Um Is it a chemical versus radiation? Is it you know, killing all microbial life? Well, we can probably remember pasteurization. It's most connected in history with milk. Louis Pasteur developed this technique to make milk safe for consumption. It's a process that's used on food that's going to be consumed. Well, think about the temperature you'd need to kill every form of microbial life in something including, you know, endospore, the temperature you'd have to heat that up to, would be pretty darn high and your food is probably not gonna taste very good after that. So that's kind of a way to think of this. So, pasteurization does not eliminate every form of microbial life. Basically, it doesn't get hot enough to do that. But pasteurization heats food products to a sufficient temperature or sufficient time to kill any human pathogens in the food. So we're just concerned with pa you know, microbes that might cause human disease and pasteurization. Meanwhile, sterilization goes further. It eliminates every form of microbial life and you can think of this. If you think of what would it mean that something is sterile, there's nothing no organisms alive on that. So choice B is going to be our answer. O A is incorrect. Pasteurization uses heat, not chemicals. Sterilization can use all different things. So it can use radiation but it can also use other things. It can use chemical physical methods. Um So not just radiation. So that's why Trese is incorrect. So once again, the difference between pasteurization and sterilization is Choice B sterilization eliminates every form of microbial life. But pasteurization doesn't see you in the next video.

Defend the following statement: “Pasteurization is not sterilization.”

Verified video answer for a similar problem:

Key Concepts

Pasteurization

Sterilization

Differences Between Pasteurization and Sterilization