• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.234-237
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• 2007

Water resistance of three biopolyester films, such as poly-L-lactate (PLA), poly-hydroxybutyrate-co-valerate (PHBV), and Ecoflex, and low density polyethylene (LDPE) film was investigated by measuring contact angle of various probe liquids on the films. The properties measured were initial contact angle of water, dynamic change of the water contact angle with time, and the critical surface energy of the films. Water contact angle of the biopolyester films ($57.62-68.76^{\circ}$) was lower than that of LDPE film ($85.19^{\circ}$) indicating biopolyester films are less hydrophobic. The result of dynamic change of water contact angle also showed that the biopolyester films are less water resistant than LDPE film, but much more water resistant than cellulose-based packaging materials. Apparent critical surface energy for the biopolyester films (35.15-38.55 mN/m) was higher than that of LDPE film (28.59 mN/m) indicating LDPE film is more hydrophobic.

• 한국포장학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2006

합성수지의 식품 포장용 사용 적합성을 판단하기 위한 가장 기본적인 평가항목인 총이행량에 대한 유럽연합의 법규들을 살펴보았다. 유럽연합은 Council Directive에서 총이행량 실험에 필요한 모사용매의 종류, 용출 온도 및 시간을 각각 규정하고, 이들 세가지 조건을 조합하여 용출 실험하도록 하고 있으며, 이러한 조건들은 실제 접촉하는 식품의 종류 및 사용조건에 따라 비교적 자세히 세분화되어 있음을 알 수 있다. 그러나 지방성 식품 포장재에 대한 일부 실험 방법의 경우, 현실적으로 시간과 노력이 많이 들고 오차가 크다는 단점이 있어, 이를 대체할 수 있는 실험조건을 별도로 설정하고 있다. 또한 식품의 종류에 따라 reduction factor를 도입함으로써 지방성 식품 모사용매를 사용할 경우 과장될 수 있는 용출결과를 별도로 보정하도록 하고 있다.

• 한국포장학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.125-132
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• 2017

The effect of food simulants on properties and light barrier function of LDPE-nano $TiO_2$ composite film has been investigated. LDPE-nano $TiO_2$ composite films were prepared with 5.0wt% $TiO_2$ content by melt-extrusion. To simulate food contact environment, according to KFDA standards and specifications for food utensils, containers and packages, food simulants were selected with deionized water, 50% ethanol, 4% acetic acid and n-heptane and composite films were immersed in each food simulant at $70^{\circ}C$, 30 min except n-heptane ($25^{\circ}C$, 60 min). A variety of material properties, including crystallinity, chemical bonds, surface morphology, mechanical, oxygen barrier and optical properties, of LDPE-nano $TiO_2$ composite film were examined with and without the food simulants treatment. As a result, under regulated migration condition, LDPE-nano $TiO_2$ composite showed extremely stable in all properties tested in the study in contact with food simulants indicating that $TiO_2$ nanoparticles are physicochemically stable and quite compatible with LDPE. Results enable us to anticipate migration of $TiO_2$ will probably not occur. To evaluate influence of migration of $TiO_2$ on food stuffs, their color, pH and acidity were observed as well.

• 분석과학
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.511-519
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• 2005

식품 포장재에 사용되는 접착제의 원료로 사용되는 우레탄의 주원료인 톨루엔 디이소시아네이트(TDI)는 인체에 노출될 경우에 독성을 일으킬 수 있다. GC/MS를 사용하여 식품 포장재에 잔류하는 TDI를 분석하기 위한 시료 전처리 조건과 분석조건을 확립하였다. 포장재 중에 포함된 TDI는 n-헵탄, 4%아세트산 등과 같은 식품유사용매를 사용하여 추출된 후, 기체 크로마토그래프/질량분석기 (GC/MS)에 의해 분석되었다. 26개의 식품 포장재를 측정한 결과 10개의 시료에서 $0.51{\sim}60.88{\mu}g/ml$ 농도 범위에서 TDI가 검출되었다. 포장재의 절단된 면에 대한 추출 용매의 접촉을 피하고 포장재 면만이 접촉하도록 한 후 추출시간을 달리하면서 실험한 결과 2시간 추출 조건에서도 0.7% 수준으로 감소되어 실제 식품 조리시에 TDI가 다량 검출될 위험은 미미한 것으로 평가되었다. 본 연구에서 확립된 톨루엔 디이소시아네이트에 대한 분석법은 외국의 유해물질에 대한 관리기준을 만족시키는 정량한계를 확보한 신뢰성 있는 방법으로 추후 관련 연구를 위한 기초 분석기술로 활용도가 높을 것으로 예상된다.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.132-140
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• 1997

Additives in plastics are capable of migrating from the packaging materials into the foodstuffs, thereby presenting a source of contamination and a potential health risk to the consumer. The migration from packaging materials into foodstuffs is first of all regulated by examining the amounts of global and specific migrated components. Besides, there is worldwide still a need for practical methods for measuring and monitoring migration from polymers, especially for the testing of migration into fatty foodstuffs. Therefore, these studies were undertaken to investigate the safety status of domestic plastic packaging materials with respect to migration. Another objective of this study was to examine the applicability of ethanol as an alternative fatty food simulant substituting for olive oil and n-heptane. The evaporation residues for various dometic plastic samples determined as described in Korean food laws were in the level from 4.3 to 14.5 mg/$\ell$, which were much lower than the limit value of 150 mg/$\ell$. The global migration values into 95 % ethanol showed to be comparable to those into n-heptane, while the olive oil migration values were comparably higher than those into ethanol or n-heptane and moreover they were not reproducible. The kinetic migration begavior of additives in polyolefin samples into 95% ethanol showed a Fickian diffusion process. The results of these studies on global migration and kinetic testings demonstrate that the ethanol could be successfully substitute for the olive oil and n-heptane as an alternative fatty food simulant, at least in contact with polyoefins.

• 한국포장학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2021

The foreign trends of noncompliance occurring frequently in food contact materials during the period of 2011-2019 was investigated by analyzing the food safety risk information DB in the National Food Safety Information Service (NFSI). A total of 2,042 cases of noncompliance of food utensils, containers, and packages were classified into 5 violation categories; administrative procedures, manufacturing and processing standards, residues and migration standards, labeling and advertising, and quality standards. This was again subcategorized according to non-compliance causative factors. The non-compliances in residues and migration standards comprised the largest proportion (76.4%) of the violative categories. The number of noncompliance information collected in 2011 was 88 cases and increased to 373 cases in 2019. A 72.8% of the non-compliance case was identified to be products of 4 countries (China 64.2%, Germany 4.0%, Japan 3.2%, and Taiwan 3.1%), those produce large quantities of containers and packaging products. During the period of 2011-2019, the number of illegal use of hazardous materials and illegal recycling of waste synthetic resins has decreased to less than one a year since 2014. On the other hand, after 2016, inconsistency of heat-resisting temperature labeling (Taiwan), non-compliance in paper container's strength standards, violation of printing standards, and the risk of consumer injury while using the products were newly reported due to the strengthening of consumer safety protection regulations. Migration of hazardous substances in synthetic polymer products such as heavy metals, melamine and formaldehyde in melamine tableware, primary aromatic amines which are colorant components in kitchenware such as ladles and spatulas, and phthalate plasticizers have been continuously reported with high frequency.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.515-520
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• 2009

Applications of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in gene therapy have been hampered by the low efficiency of gene transfer to these cells. In current transduction protocols, retrovirus particles with foreign genes make only limited contact with their target cells by passive diffusion and have short life spans, thereby limiting the chances of viral infection. We theorized that mechanically agitating the virus-containing cell suspensions would increase the movement of viruses and target cells, resulting in increase of contact between them. Application of our mechanical agitation for transduction process has increased the absorption of retrovirus particles more than five times compared to the previous static method without changing cell growth rate and viability. The addition of a mechanical agitation step increased transduction efficiency to 42%, higher than that of any other previously-known static transduction protocol.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2005

In this paper, the contact stress and strain distributions in elastomer O-ring seals have been analyzed using a non-linear finite element method. The stress behavior of PTFE materials is assumed as Odgen model because the sealing clearance between the flange and the surface of the O-ring is not small and the sealing pressure of working fluids covers from the atmospheric pressure to high pressure of 15MPa. The contact normal force and stress in wavy O-rings in which is developed for this analysis are uniformly distributed along the flange and the wall of the rectangular groove. And the normal sealing forces are also kept high compared to other contact sealing models such as the conventional O-ring and X-ring, Thus, the FEM computed results indicate that the sealing characteristic of wavy O-rings is food compared with other contact seals.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.227-232
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• 2011

Zein is a hydrophobic protein produced from maize and has great potential in a number of industrial applications, such as food, food coating and food packaging. To obtain suitable electrospinning conditions for thinner and uniform zein nanofiber mats, a series of experiments was conducted on various volume ratios (v/v) of ethanol/water solutions with different zein concentrations. The prepared zein nanofiber mats were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy and contact angle measurements. Uniform zein fibers with a average diameter in the nanometer scale (300~500 nm) could be prepared from 30 wt.% zein in 7/3 (v/v) ethanol/water solutions.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2001

Microorganisms can attach firmly to food contact surface material and the resitance of adherent bacteria differ markedly from planktonic cells. Therefore, adherent cells are a potential contamination problem to the food preparation because of their high resistance. to sanitation and heat treatment. This study was carried out in order to investigate growth and decontamination of Listeria monocytogenes attached to stainless steel, glass and plastic. Listeria monocytogenes cells could attach to all types of surface at three temperatures after contact times for 24 hrs. The numbers of adherent cells were greater at higher temperatures, but not increased with incubation time. When recovery of adherent cells was investigated, after 24 grs, the numbers of adherent cells were about 10$^{7}$ , 10$^{10}$ , 11$^{11}$ at 4$^{\circ}C$, $25^{\circ}C$, 3$0^{\circ}C$ repectively. Planctonic cells decreased by 2 log cycles after exposure to the domestic sanitizer. Adherent cells showed high resistance to domestic sanitizers and that was dependent upon surface materials studied, being greatest on plastic followed by stainless steel and glass. Adherent cells were more resistant to heat treatment than planktonic cells. When adherent cells were exposed to the temperature of 5$0^{\circ}C$, 55$^{\circ}C$, 57.5$^{\circ}C$ for 10 min, their populations did not decrease significantly. When the temprature increased to 6$0^{\circ}C$, cells attached to all types of surfaces were completely inactivated for 10 min.