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New York Agriculture in the Classroom

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Louis Pasteur and Pasteurization

In the early 1880s, people did not understand why food spoiled. Louis Pasteur discovered that small germs cause spoilage. He began working on a process that would help food last longer. Inside this graphic novel, the reader learns about the experiments Pasteur conducted and the process of pasteurization.

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Jennifer Lee Fandel, Charles Bennett III, & Rodney Ramos

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