Isaac Carasso

Isaac Carasso (1874 - April 19th 1939) was a doctor and a member of famous the Famille Carasso making left large the Jewish community of Salonique located in the Balkans (Thessalonique nowadays in Greece). It founded a factory of Yaourt which became the Groupe Danone. It was the nephew of Emanuel Karasu a politician of the Ottoman Empire.

Carasso was born in Salonique in 1874. In 1912 at the time of the First Balkan War its family left the city with the approach of the Greek Armée which was about to take the city with the Othomans and emigrated with Barcelona in Spain.

After having established its doctor's office Carasso noticed that many its young patients suffered from intestinal and digestive disorders. Inspired by work of Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov which had popularized the milk fermented as a remedy and knowing that the very popular yoghourts in Balkans consisted of fermented milk, it imported cultures of Bulgaria where set up its own cultures isolated at Paris at the Institut Pasteur. The yoghourt being badly known at that time in Europe, it first of all started to sell it as a drug in pharmacies.

It founded the company which would become later celebrates it as Groupe Danone it opened in 1919 a small business called Danone in reference to the diminutive Catalan of his/her Daniel son. Carasso set up first industrial processes of fabricaton of the yahourt. . Isaac Carasso died in France in 1939.

His/her son Daniel taken again Carasso the Spanish family company and founded subsidiary companies in France and with the the United States (Dannon).

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