User talk:Ralphroug

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November 2015

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December 2015

Sorry about the misunderstanding on that article. QuartzReload (talk) 17:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2016

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] and record some conversations with Smart in hopes that she would say something incriminating. (It would be really interesting to know what Pamela actually said, what was recorded, did it rise to

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Wikipedia and copyright

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Pasteurization

I have reverted your edits on Pasteurization because they appeared to be based on a false understanding. Microbes is a general term that encompasses all small organisms from protozoa through to phages but including bacteria. A pathogen may be any one of these classes of organisms plus some which are not microbes. So to say that "Pathogens can be produced by microbes, not just bacteria" is false. Pathogens may BE bacteria and may be other classes of microbes. I have also reverted the addition of fermentation as that is wholly separate and different from pasteurization. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 13:50, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Numerous "novel" forms of pasteurization are NOT pasteurization but are relevant as forms of preservation. Pasteurization specifically uses heat to preserve organic materials, whether for food or other uses. Fermentation is an important form of preservation to be included with the other "novel" forms of preservation that also do not utilize heat. It makes more sense to me to add a line about fermentation to tip the readers and extend the concept of food preservation rather than to remove the "novel" non-pasteurization treatments. What is more useful to the reader, include fermentation or remove the other "novel" non pasteurization methods of preservation methods? Trade places with the audience, would they rather be informed about fermentation or be ignorant of all the "novel" non pasteurization methods? 2603:8001:9802:8915:1DDF:B8E2:64A6:6A8F (talk) 07:24, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than reverting you could have corrected my correction, as food spoilage is not limited to bacteria as the article stated. 2603:8001:9802:8915:1DDF:B8E2:64A6:6A8F (talk) 07:26, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]