New York City prohibited operating a pasteurizer within the five boroughs.

Thus far, the lowest price she has been quoted for a small pasteurizer that would meet with state approval has been $6,000.

In 1936, a used pasteurizer was purchased and the dairy became one of the first in East Tennessee to distribute pasteurized milk.

In 1957, Mlekara Subotica purchased its first used trucks, a batch pasteurizer with ribbed cooler and a separator pasteurizer.

Pam and Gary Mount, owners of the Terhune Orchards, a 225-acre farm just outside Princeton, said they bought and installed a pasteurizer because of the government-imposed warnings.

His modest processing plant, which he built in a former potato barn in his backyard and equipped with a used pasteurizer and steam kettle bought at auction, must be kept immaculate.

In the shed that doubles as a processing plant, milk from a refrigerated tank is heated to 145 degrees in a pasteurizer for 30 to 40 minutes and then poured into five-gallon buckets.

Carbonated drinks made with real juice must be bottled in a machine called a tunnel pasteurizer, a contraption Marlin describes as "sort of like a car wash for bottles that kills the bacteria."

"He's just thrown us out like garbage, and he's got new faces all the time," said Gary Mason, a pasteurizer for 16 years, who was picketing Farmland's headquarters on a chilly, rainy day.

Among the more prominent milestones in the history of CVNE, wine pasteurization using a "Malvoisin" pasteurizer, a revolutionary device, placed CVNE at the pinnacle of innovation among world winemakers.

There were the cement floors of the dairy barn to be hosed iown and disinfected, the stalls to be cleaned, then the milk to be fed into the pasteurizer, cooled and bottled, while a portion went into the big mechanical churn.