Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station
138 Strand Agriculture Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331- 8521
541-737-4251, Contact Us
J. Antonio Torres works under pressure — extremely high pressure. The OSU food scientist uses pressures that are 6,000 times greater than atmospheric pressure and almost 10 times greater than pressure in the deepest ocean — to kill microbes in food.
“Dairies and all food processors use heat to inactivate microorganisms that are...





