What Started Pasteurization? by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist/Nutritionist/Author A French crystal-chemist by the name of Louis Pasteur, who was born in 1822 and died in 1895, suddenly became famous because he saved the wine and beer industries from devastation. During a period in Europe when molds were affecting wine crops, Pasteur invented a heat process that saved the wine from…