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A Study on Comprehensive Environmental Information System for Livestock Manure Management in Korea (가축분뇨 관리를 위한 통합환경정보시스템 발전방안)

  • Jeong, Dong-Hwan;Kim, Yongseok;Shin, Jinsoo;Rhew, Doughee;Cho, Hong-Lae;Lee, Taehwan
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.183-194
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    • 2013
  • The Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry, and Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Maritime Affairs are in charge of livestock manure management. There are national statistics regarding the livestock industry such as the National Pollution Source Survey, Livestock Statistic Survey, and Livestock-breeding Trend Survey. The current statistical data are focused on the scale of livestock breeding and the production of livestock manure using these data, but it is difficult to establish database due to lack of information. In order to plan relevant policies including management of livestock manure, the government established database systems such as the integrated information system of livestock manure, the integrated system of national infectious animal-disease prevention, and the Sae-ol public administrative system. We have tried to suggest improvements for the comprehensive environmental information system of livestock manure management by detecting problems in each level of the livestock manure life-cycle, making use of the existing systems, and considering the electronic transfer system of livestock manure. The services and functions of this comprehensive system include information of livestock farmers, the production, collection, transportation, and treatment of livestock manure, the area of agricultural land used for livestock manure, the report of approval and results on livestock manure products, management of statistical information, management of civil affairs, and relevant mobile application services. The system is made up of three processes: first, establishment of GIS-based management database of livestock manure; second, establishment of a history management system for livestock manure transactions; and third, development of a water quality assessment system.

Study on the Impacts and Countermeasures of Climate Change on Livestock Agriculture (축산부문에 미치는 기후변화의 영향 및 대응방안 연구)

  • Ji, Eun-Sook;Park, Kyu-Hyun
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2015
  • Climate change has directly impacted environmentally dependent first industry. The changes of amount and frequency of precipitation have caused unstable drinking water supply for grassland and feed crop, and have changed the variety of grassland and feed crop. Rising temperature has caused heat stress on livestock, which has impacted feed intake and livestock products, and also has threatened to the health of livestock by widening the range of sources of diseases. In order for livestock industry to confront climate change, new technology development for climate change adaptation and measures of greenhouse gas mitigation are essential. Agroforestry is the one of alternative measures to mitigate greenhouse gases and to adapt to climate change. Agroforestry is the way rearing livestock and cultivating plants in forest, which is suitable to Korea where mountain area is over 68%. Feedstock such as maize, soybean, rice, and grass grown by agroforestry would decrease feed cost. Agroforestry will decrease heat stress of livestock during hot weather and will be possible to pasture, which increases livestock welfare.

QuEChERS-based determination of tissue residues and acute toxicity of pyraclofos in rat (QuEChERS 법을 이용한 Rat 조직내 Pyraclofos 잔류 분석 및 급성독성 평가)

  • Pyo, Min-Jung;Hah, Do-Yun;Choi, You-Jeong;Jeong, Kwi-Ok;Han, Chang-Hee;Park, Young-Ho;Kim, Min-Hee;Kim, Won-Gyu;Jung, Jing-Gune;Kim, Munki;Kim, Euikyung
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2015
  • Environmental pesticides used for insect control can be transferred from plants to animals even to livestock animals through food chain. Human beings also can be exposed to pesticides by consuming polluted dairy products, including meats, eggs and other milk products. Therefore, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) established Standard for Pesticide Residue Limits in dairy products. The QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) methods for detecting residual pesticides are relatively well established for fruits and vegetables, however, the methods for meat have not been appropriately studied yet. In the present work, pyraclofos was used as an organophosphate pesticide to examine its tissue residue in experimental animals by QuEChERS methods. For this, pyraclofos (150 mg/kg body weight) was orally administered to male rats once a day for 2 days. After 6, 12, and 24 hr of the treatment, the tissue residues in liver and femoral muscle of the rats were determined using QuEChERS methods followed by HPLC analyses. In preliminary studies, the recovery rates of spiking samples of pyraclofos demonstrated approximately 109~110% from the tissues. In previous study, pyraclofos tissue residues were observed with significantly high levels in livers and muscles at 6 hr of oral treatment. Then, they were almost completely disappeared after 24 hr of the administration, indicating the orally exposed pyraclofos is rapidly absorbed and distributed to body organs, then quickly excreted from the body with a negligible level of tissue residue. The alterations in blood chemistry as well as the histopathology of heart, lung, liver, spleen and kidney have also been investigated in the experimental animals for assessing acute toxic effects of pyraclofos. The obtained blood chemistry indexes (ALT and AST) showed maximum peak values at 12 hr after the oral administration and decreased to the normal levels at 24 hr of the treatment. Histopathologic observation exhibited acute hepatic damages at 24 hr of the treatment. In conclusion, we suggest that QuEChERS method can be adequately optimized for the analysis of pyraclofos residues in animal tissues.

The Analysis for Calcium and Fructooligosaccharides Contents in Nutrients Fortified Dairy Products (유가공품 중 칼슘 및 프락토올리고당 영양강화 함량 분석)

  • Park, Ji-Sung;Park, Jae-Woo;Cho, Byung-Hoon;Song, Sung-Ok;Wee, Sung-Hwan;Oh, Soon-Min;Kim, Jin-Man
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.781-786
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    • 2013
  • Nutrients fortified dairy products declare their contents on the label for nutrition claim and marketing. However, there are few monitoring studies about relations between actual quantities of fortified nutrients and the described ones on the label. This study was carried out for comparing actual fortified nutrient contents with labeled ones. Forty calcium fortified dairy products and twenty four fructooligosaccharides (FOS) fortified dairy products were sampled at supermarkets located in Anyang, Korea from March to November in 2010. Calcium contents were analyzed by using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry followed by microwave sample digestion, and FOS contents were analyzed by HPLC-ELSD followed by solvent extraction. In fresh milk, calcium contents ranged from 1.0 to 2.4 mg/mL, and those values were 87~127% of their labeled contents. In fermented milk products and cheeses, calcium contents ranged from 0.3 to 1.6 mg/g (89~131% of their labeled contents), 4.2 to 23.0 mg/g (83~127% of their labeled contents), respectively. FOS contents ranged from 9.09 to 18.89 mg/g in FOS contents labeled products and showed 83~154% compared to their labeled quantity, and ranged from 1.3~30.8 mg/g in products without quantity labeling. In conclusion, the amounts of calcium and FOS in dairy products were above 80% compared to their labeled ones and conformed to the Korean official livestock products labeling standard.

Comparison of DNA Extraction Methods for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria from Livestock Manure Composts (퇴비에서 식중독균 검출을 위한 DNA 추출 방법 비교)

  • Kim, Sung-Youn;Seo, Dong-Yeon;Moon, Ji-Young
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.557-561
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    • 2019
  • This study investigated the efficacy of DNA extraction methods for real-time PCR detection of foodborne pathogenic bacteria in livestock manure composts. Livestock manure composts were inoculated with Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella Typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, Bacillus cereus and incubated in enrichment broth. For DNA extraction, enriched samples were treated following boiling method, by chloroform, C18 powder, and proteinase K. As a result, 4 species of bacteria were detected by real-time PCR when subjected to boiling for 30 min and treated with proteinase K. These results suggest that detection of foodborne pathogens by real-time PCR from livestock manure composts could be applicable using effective DNA extraction methodology such as the boiling method or proteinase K.

Quality and Acceptability of Meat Nuggets with Fresh Aloe vera Gel

  • Rajkumar, V.;Verma, Arun K.;Patra, G.;Pradhan, S.;Biswas, S.;Chauhan, P.;Das, Arun K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.702-708
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    • 2016
  • Aloe vera has been used worldwide for pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries due to its wide biological activities. However, quality improvement of low fat meat products and their acceptability with added Aloe vera gel (AVG) is scanty. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of using fresh AVG on physicochemical, textural, sensory and nutritive qualities of goat meat nuggets. The products were prepared with 0%, 2.5%, and 5% fresh AVG replacing goat meat and were analyzed for proximate composition, physicochemical and textural properties, fatty acid profile and sensory parameters. Changes in lipid oxidation and microbial growth of nuggets were also evaluated over 9 days of refrigerated storage. The results showed that AVG significantly (p<0.05) decreased the pH value and protein content of meat emulsion and nuggets. Product yield was affected at 5% level of gel. Addition of AVG in the formulation significantly affected the values of texture profile analysis. The AVG reduced the lipid oxidation and microbial growth in nuggets during storage. Sensory panelists preferred nuggets with 2.5% AVG over nuggets with 5% AVG. Therefore, AVG up to 2.5% level could be used for quality improvement in goat meat nuggets without affecting its sensorial, textural and nutritive values.