Home Who first suggested that milk be pasteurized to make it safer for consumption? No, it wasn’t Louis Pasteur. Back in 1886, Frans von Soxhlet, a German agricultural chemist, was the first person to suggest that milk sold to the public be pasteurized.

Louis Pasteur. During the mid- to late 19th century, Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies. Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) is revered by his successors in the life sciences as.