Pretoria pasteurization

Pretoria pasteurization is another form of low-temperature long time (LTLT) stovetop heat-treating that has been used for breastmilk from an HIV-positive lactating parents in developing countries.1 This method has however not shown to be as effective as Flash-heating.2

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  1. B. S. Jeffery, K. G. Mercer. 2000. Pretoria Pasteurization: A Potential Method for the Reduction of Postnatal Mother to Child Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ↩︎
  2. Kiersten Israel-Ballard, et al. 2005. Viral, Nutritional, and Bacterial Safety of Flash-Heated and Pretoria-Pasteurized Breast Milk to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Resource-Poor Countries ↩︎