date:May 15, 2013
Pure Eire Dairy uses a process known as vat pasteurization. In that process, the milk is held at 145 degrees F (62.8 C) for 30 minutes and then quickly cooled.
While that may sound like a relatively simple process, FDA inspectors, while conducting tests as part of the Dairy Initiative Program, found some problems with vat pasteurization, among them improper equipment design and improperly operated airspace heaters.
That latter problem is critical, according to information about this topic in t