Pasteurization, a process of heating milk to eliminate various pathogens that can cause diseases and foodborne illnesses, originated with Louis Pasteur and his devoted team of chemists in France ...

The FDA defines raw milk as milk that has not undergone pasteurization, a critical process developed by Louis Pasteur in 1864 that heats milk to specific temperatures to eliminate harmful bacteria.

Pasteurization is named after its inventor, French biologist Louis Pasteur. As large-scale production of milk became popularized in the 1800s, many people fell extremely ill from milk-borne illnesses.

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany ... hypothesising that germs caused disease and not vice versa. He of milk pasteurising fame was able to prove that milk went off ...