@TheIndependentAquarius I'm still a little confused why you're asking. Do you think the "use by" date might be wrong, so it would go bad before the date? Or that refrigeration isn't good enough?

I've edited the information from your comments into the question. I'm afraid not many of us are from your part of the world - in most of the world all milk you can buy in a store is safe to drink as-is, so the question seemed pretty strange.

@TFD Please don't bother people for asking honest questions. Not everyone lives where you do.

@Jefromi The word "pasteurized" is well defined, and anyone sophisticated enough to post here would have access to on-line dictionaries and/or wikipedia etc. I think the comments and -ve votes from others speak for themselves

@TheIndependentAquarius have been to less sophisticated places than India. Before the Internet! They still seemed to know what "pasteurized" meant, or had access to a basic dictionary?

@TFD I'm guessing to someone who's had to do things like boiling milk for safety, double checking like this is still helpful. (What if pasteurization kills most things but you're still supposed to boil to be sure? How do you know if Wikipedia is thinking of India, not just Western countries?) But regardless, if you think there's lack of research effort, say so. That's not the same as "this question is trolling."

@Jefromi OK also lack of research effort. Also please check users past 180 questions?

@TFD I certainly haven't noticed a systematic problem, but if you think anything is seriously flawed to the point mods need to be involved, flag it. Find me in chat if you want to discuss it. Give it a rest here, though.

Given the volume and sophisticated language used in the past 180 questions, it seems incredulous that this person would not know the word, or could not simply look it up

India is a sophisticated milk market, with one of the worlds largest milk (Amul) among others. Sure you can buy raw milk from the caw or street vendor, but that's obvious what it is as you have to bring your own container. Store bough milk comes in plastic bags or bottle and it controlled by government regulation just like in most milk consuming countries

@TFD Okay, so, lack of research effort. Your downvote is justified.

But once you point that out, that's not a reason to keep after the OP, and it's not anything mods need to worry about.

I didn't "keep after" I just replied to your comment?

Yes, with at least the strong implication that you were trying to say it really is just trolling.

If that's not what you meant, sorry, but it's the way you started the conversation, so it was pretty hard to see anything else you'd be arguing for.

And I don't want people here to be accused of trolling merely for asking a question they should've researched more. Downvoted, sure, that's fine, that's what it's for. But we don't have to be hostile about it.

Probably should have used the word "trawling" :-)

@Jefromi Why didn't you ask OP what a basic dictionary lookup or web search in their native language finds for pasteurised?

@rumtscho Not sure where you are from, but if you refer to people with them, they, their. You avoid accidentally called a he a she etc. Which in some cultures is a little more insensitive, and make you look less chauvinistic

@TFD Because it's not worth that kind of hassle at this point. The OP felt the need to ask the question, and said that next time she'll mention her prior research, and I'm not going to badger her into telling us exactly what research she did this time when she's already gotten a helpful answer.

@Jefromi I understand. It just looks wrong, a forum with questions like "Is pasteurized milk safe to drink?", what's next "Does frozen meat keep longer than in the refrigerator?"

@TFD Well, we could add "...in India" to the title I suppose. I know it looks dumb in developed countries. But it obviously didn't look dumb to the OP here, and I think we should probably worry more about helping people like her with questions than we do about what people will think of us for answering those questions.