What is the difference between sterilised and pasteurisation?
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Answer:Sterilization is a controlled heating process used to completely eliminate all living micro-organisms, including thermoresistant spores in milk or other food. It can be achieved by moist heat, dry heat, filtration, irradiation, or by chemical methods.
Pasteurization or pasteurisation is a process in which water and certain packaged and non-packaged foods are treated with mild heat, usually to less than 100 °C, to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.
Explanation:
Sterilization is intended to destroy all germs and particularly pathogenic bacteria in their vegetative and sporulated form. ... The moderate heat treatment of pasteurization allows the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms present in their vegetative form, and a large number of spoilage microorganisms.