• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Food Hygiene and Safety Conference
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• 1992.07a
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• pp.21-32
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• 1992

Pesticides are regarded as one of indispensable materials used in agriculture to protect pests and to keep the agriculture productions steadily. However, food contamination arisen from their application has brought about public concerns for safety suspicion to human health. A brief presentation is given in this paper on what has been conducted against pesticide residues to evaluate and ensure the safety of agro-products. The commonest countermeasures to keep safety would be the establishment of MRLs and safe-use guidelines of pesticides according to good agricultural practices. Korean MRLs have bun established on 38 chemicals with 56 commodities and in the case of safe-use guidelines 344 formulation items have been done by the government. On the other hand, no satisfactory information is still available to evalute the actual residue levels in domestic agro-products, but a cautious proposal could be suggested through the fragmentary monitoring data of pesticide residues, so that the current residue levels would be far from potent hazard enough to cause chronic impact on human. The most important thing is to have the farmers keep safe use guidelines at pesticide application for the production of safe agriculture commodities.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.343-351
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• 2020

BACKGROUND: Irrigation water is known to be one of the major sources of bacterial contamination in agricultural products. In addition, anti-microbial resistance (AMR) bacteria in food products possess serious threat to humans. This study was aimed at investigating the prevalence of foodborne bacteria in irrigation water and evaluating their anti-microbial susceptibility. METHODS AND RESULTS: Surface water (n = 66 sites) and groundwater (n = 40 sites) samples were collected from the Gyeongi and Gangwon provinces of South Korea during April, July, and October 2019. To evaluate the safety of water, fecal indicators (Escherichia coli) and foodborne pathogens (E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella spp., and Listeria monocytogenes) were examined. E. coli isolates from water were further tested for antimicrobial susceptibility using VITEK2 system. Overall, detection rate of foodborne pathogens in July was highest among three months. The prevalence of pathogenic E. coli (24%), Salmonella (3%), and L. monocytogenes (3%) was higher in surface water, while only one ground water site was contained with pathogenic E. coli (2.5%). Of the 343 E. coli isolates, 22.7% isolates were resistant to one or more antimicrobials (ampicillin (18.7%), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (7.0%), and ciprofloxacin (6.7%)). CONCLUSION: To enhance the safety of agricultural products, it is necessary to frequently monitor the microbial quality of water.

• Monthly Duck's Village
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• s.64
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• pp.68-74
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• 2008

친환경인증제도란 환경에 농산물(예: 농약을 사용하지 않은 유기농산물), 친환경건축자재, 친환경건축물 등등 다양한 분야에 적용되는 인증제도입니다. 농약의 환경보전 기능을 증대시키고, 농업으로 인한 환경오염을 줄임으로 일반농산물을 친환경농산물로 허위 또는 둔갑표시하는 것으로부터 생산자.소비자를 보호하기 위해 유통과정에서의 신뢰구축으로 친환경농산물 생산과 공급체계를 확립하기 위한 것입니다. 그 동안 증산위주의 고투입농법에 의존해 온 결과 농업환경이 약화되어 지속가능한 농업생산을 위협하고 지나친 농약사용은 토양미생물, 천적감소 등 생태계 교란, 수질오염 및 농산물의 농약잔류문제를 야기하는 등 관련 국제규범이 제정됨으로써 환경보전 및 식품안전에 대한 국민의 관심제고에 적극적인 대응 필요에 만들어 졌습니다.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.440-445
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• 2011

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to monitor the current status of pesticide residues and to assess their risk in domestic agricultural products. The samples were rice, barley, lettuce and perilla leaf. These four types of agricultural products were those with GAP(Good Agricultural Practice) certification, organic agricultural products, pesticide-free agricultural products or general agricultural products. METHODS AND RESULTS: They were purchased from traditional markets and supermarkets of 12 regions in Korea from July to August 2010. The total number of samples was 259 for agricultural products and these were analyzed by GC/ECD, GC/NPD and GC/MSD. We used multiresidue methods to analyze for 110 different pesticides except for herbicides. CONCLUSION: In this study, residual pesticides were detected in 18 samples. Among these general agricultural products, organic agricultural products and products with GAP-certification were detected in 12, 4 and 2 samples, respectively. Detection rates of general agricultural products, organic agricultural products and products with GAPcertification were 4.6%, 1.5% and 0.8% respectively. Pesticides were not detected in pesticide-free agricultural products. Their detection levels were less than their maximum residue levels. Their estimated daily intakes ranged from 0.0003% to 0.04302% of their acceptable daily intakes, of which the values have no effect on human health.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.249-259
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• 2022

This study investigated pesticide residues in 7,069 agricultural products distributed in the city of Incheon from 2019 to 2021. Ingestion of pesticides can cause serious carcinogenic, endocrine, neurological, and reproductive problems. Pesticide residues in the samples were analyzed using various multi-residue methods (GC-MS/MS, GC-ECD/NPD, LC-MS/MS, and HPLC-UVD) on the Korean Food Code. The violation rate of the samples exceeding the maximum residue level (MRL) of pesticide residues for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021 was 1.0%, 1.4%, and 1.1%, respectively. Diazinon, flubendiamide, procymidone, fluxametamide, and fluquinconazole were the most frequently reported violative pesticide residues. Most commonly encountered agricultural products exceeding MRLs were coriander leaves, chamnamul, chwinamul, welsh onion, and crown daisy. Agricultural products and pesticides frequently exceeding MRLs should be continuously inspected for food safety. Continuous monitoring of pesticide residues in agricultural products is indispensable to improve consumer safety by preventing the distribution of agricultural products exceeding MRLs.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.294-296
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• 2009

현재 운용되고 있는 우수농산물 관리제도는 식품안전시스템으로서 소비자의 신뢰를 확보하는 데 주요한 두가지 문제점이 있다. 첫 번째는 제도의 근간이 되는 생산이력데이타의 입력이 농민과 유통업자 등의 직접입력에 의존하기 때문에 자료의 정확성을 검증하기 불가하다는 것이며 두 번째는 오염된 농산물을 추적하여 회수할 수 없다는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 방안으로서 정보기술과 농업현장기술을 결합한 IT융합모델을 고안하였다. 이모델에서는 영상분석시스템을 이용하여 현장 영농 활동을 분류하고 생산이력데이타를 자동생성하며, USN을 기반으로한 실시간 이력추적 시스템을 통해 유통중인 농산물의 현재위치와 안전성 관리자료를 실시간 전송하도록 되어있다.

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.104-107
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• 2020

농산물품질관리원(이하 농관원)은 국민들이 애용하는 농축산물의 생산과 소비에 있어서 농가 소득안정 지원은 물론 농축산물의 품질 관리를 위해 없어서는 안 될 중추적인 기관이다. 코로나 19시대를 맞이하여 농가의 편의 제공은 물론 친환경 농축산물 인증관리 등 국민들에게 안전한 농식품을 공급하기 위해 오늘도 많은 노력을 기울이고 있다. 본고는 지난 2019년 4월부터 농산물품질관리원장으로 부임하여 업무를 수행하고 있는 노수현 원장을 만나 안전한 농축산물 공급과 농가소득 안정을 위한 농관원의 역할 및 향후 계획을 들어보았다.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.149-156
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• 1992

This study was carried out to determine residues of 17 pesticides and provide basic information on dietary safety of 35 kinds of Kangweon-do agricultural products. Residual leyels of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides were analyzed by using GLC-ECO and GLC-NPD, respectively. A total of 157 agricultural products of Kangweon-do were analyzed. At least one kind of pesticide residues were detected in 48.4% of the analyzed samples and two or more kinds were found in 15.3%. Residue of Captan was detected in 43 samples of 81 agricultural products which was 53.1%. But residues of Endrin, Captafol, Parathion, Fenitrothion, Fenthion and EPN were not found in the all samples tested. Ranges of the pesticide residue leyels detected were ND-0.142 ppm for organochlorine pesticides, ND-0.075 ppm for organophosphorus pesticides and ND-1.067 ppm for Captan. Results of this monitoring study demonstrated that pesticide residue leyels in Kangweon-do agricultural supply were generally well below regulatory limits.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.149-166
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate what influence the external variables of the RFID system for eco-friendly agricultural products such as reliability, safety, effectiveness and innovation have on ease and usefulness, perceived value and behavioral intention. An empirical analysis were conducted to the general consumers over the age of 20 years who live in Seoul and Gyeonggi areas having experience of buying eco-friendly agricultural products in department stores, supermarkets and eco-friendly agricultural product specialty stores from November 10 to November 23, 2012, A total of 350 copies of questionnaire were distributed for this research and, excluding partial ones that were too concentrated on one side or found missing values, a total of 305 copies(87.1%) were used as the final statistical analysis data. The result shows that such external variables of the RFID system for eco-friendly agricultural products as liability, safety, effectiveness and innovation are useful enough as a theoretical basis for later study on RFID systems for eco-friendly agricultural products. Also, it reveals that, since all the process from production to sale of agricultural products can be seen, the products are provided safely for consumers, are objectively and rapidly investigated when problems occur, induce a positive attitude with their historical information, and are supplied through systematic management such as consumers' rights to know and choose and recall of unfit products.

• 물만먹고자라요
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• no.17
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• pp.40-52
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• 2005

편리함을 추구하는 소비자들은 이른바 신선편이농산물을 찾고 있다. 일부 자료에 의하면 식재시장이 10조원 규모를 상회하는 것으로 보고되고 있으며 어떤 형태로든 전 처리되어 유통되는 신선농산물 시장은 대략 수조원 정보 되는 것으로 추정되고 있다. 그 양의 대소를 떠나 향후 농산물의 유통은 소비자가 사용하기 편리하고 안전하며 신선한 형태가 그 중심을 이룰 것으로 여겨지고 있다. 이러한 '신선편이농산물' 에 대해 다양한 각도에서 시장의 변화와 그 요구를 알아본다. 자료는 농수축산 신문에서 협조하여 기사를 발췌하여 재구성하였다.