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ACF Cooking Professional Exams

Category - Culinary

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The chemist and bacteriologist responsible for the discovery of the sterilization method and is credited with conducting the first scientifically controlled fermentation reactions is:
  1. Auguste Escoffier
  2. Louis Pasteur
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Rene Descartes
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ANSWER: B - Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was the French scientist who discovered the technique of pasteurization and sterilization. He is also credited with conducting the first scientific fermentation. For all of his accomplishments, Louis Pasteur is known as the father of food microbiology.
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