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The process of heating foods to a temperature which will destroy harmful microbes is called

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Pasteurization.

(Heat treatment—e.g., 63°C for 30 min or 72°C for 15 s for milk—used to destroy pathogenic microbes. If complete destruction of all microbes and spores is meant, the term is sterilization.)