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Residue Levels of Chlorpyrifos and Chlorothalonil in Apples at Harvest (Chlorpyrifos 및 Chlorothalonil의 사과 생산단계별 잔류특성)

  • Kim, Young-Sook;Park, Ju-Hwang;Park, Jong-Woo;Lee, Young-Deuk;Lee, Kyu-Seung;Kim, Jang-Eok
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.130-136
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    • 2003
  • An organophosphorus insecticide, chlorpyrifos and an arylnitrile fungicide, chlorothalonil commonly used far apple were subjected to a residual investigation under field conditions to ensure safety of terminal residues at harvest. After pesticides were applied at standard rate in apple tree fer 15 days for chlorpyrifos and 30 days far chlorothalonil, persistence of their residues in apple was investigated by several interval. At harvest, residual concentrations of chlorpyrifos and chlorothalonil in apple were 1.3 and 2.4mg/kg, respectively, and the residue levels were higher than MRL 1.0 mg/kg in Korea. As well fitted by the first-oder kinetics, biological half-lives of the pesticide residues in apple were 9.3 days for chlorpyrifos and 32.2 days for chlorothalonil. During the storage, half-lives of chlorpyrifos and chlorothalonil were 35.0 and 56.3days at room temperature, and 120.7 and 182.8 days at 412, respectively. Distribution of chlorpyrifos residue in flesh, fruit skin and stalk cavity of each apple corresponded to 0.1% 22.8% and 77.1%, respectively. In case of chlorothalonil, residue in flesh, fruit skin and stalk cavity was 4.4%, 10.4% and 85.2%, respectively.

Decreases Nitrous Oxide Emission and Increase Soil Carbon via Carbonized Biomass Application of Orchard Soil (과수원 토양의 탄화물 시용에 따른 아산화질소 발생량 감소와 토양탄소 증가효과)

  • Lee, Sun-il;Kim, Gun-yeob;Choi, Eun-jung;Lee, Jong-sik;Jung, Hyun-cheol
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2017
  • BACKGROUND: Carbonized biomass is a carbon-rich solid product obtained by the pyrolysis of biomass. It has been suggested to mitigate climate change through increased carbon storage and reduction of greenhouse gas emission. The objective of this study was to evaluate carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) and nitrous oxide ($N_2O$) emissions from soil after carbonized biomass addition. METHODS AND RESULTS: The carbonized biomass was made from a pyrolyzer, which a reactor was operated about $400{\sim}500^{\circ}C$ for 5 hours. The treatments were consisted of a control without input of carbonized biomass and two levels of carbonized biomass inputs as 6.06 Mg/ha for CB-1 and 12.12 Mg/ha for CB-2. Emissions of $CO_2$ and $N_2O$ from orchard soil were determined using closed chamber for 13 weeks at $25^{\circ}C$ of incubation temperature. It was shown that the cumulative $CO_2$ were $209.4g\;CO_2/m^2$ for CB-1, $206.4g\;CO_2/m^2$ for CB-2 and $214.5g\;CO_2/m^2$ for the control after experimental periods. The cumulative $CO_2$ emission was similar in carbonized biomass input treatment compared to the control. It was appeared that cumulative $N_2O$ emissions were $4,478mg\;N_2O/m^2$ for control, $3,227mg\;N_2O/m^2$ for CB-1 and$ 2,324mg\;N_2O/m^2$ for CB-2 at the end of experiment. Cumulative $N_2O$ emission contents significantly decreased with increasing the carbonized biomass input. CONCLUSION: Consequently the carbonized biomass from byproducts such as pear branch residue could suppress the soil $N_2O$ emission. The results fromthe study imply that carbonized biomass can be utilized to reduce greenhouse gas emission from the orchard field.

Hydrogeological Characteristics of the Wangjeon-ri PCWC area, Nonsan-city, with an Emphasis on Water Level Variations (논산시 왕전리 수막재배지역의 지하수위 변화)

  • Cho, Byong-Wook;Yun, Uk;Lee, Byeong-Dae;Ko, Kyung-Seok
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.195-205
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    • 2012
  • We evaluated the results of pumping tests, the amount of groundwater used by Protected Cultivation with Water Curtain (PCWC), and monthly depth to water table (DTW) at the Wangjeon-ri area, Nonsan City, to elucidate the cause of a decrease in pumping rate during the winter PCWC season. The transmissivity and storage coefficient at eight sites where the major aquifer is alluvium, vary from 119.9 to $388.1m^2/d$ and $1.5{\times}10^{-4}$ to $5.5{\times}10^{-4}$, respectively. The pumping rate for PCWC during three months (Dec. to Feb.) averaged about $8,100m^3/d$ and the maximum water level in the area varied by about 10 m. Groundwater levels had fully recovered by August-five months after pumping for PCWC had ceased. These observations indicate that the pumping rate during the winter PCWC season was excessive compared with groundwater productivity in the area. Groundwater level in the central PCWC area varied from -3.0 to 4.38 m, exceeding the water level of the Nosung Stream for only three months (Aug. to Oct.). This result indicates that Nosung Stream recharges the area during the period from November to July. To solve the problem of reduced pumping rate during the winter PCWC season, it would be necessary to reduce the amount of groundwater used for PCWC or to develop an artificial recharge system using recycled groundwater.

Impact Assessment of Forest Development on Net Primary Production using Satellite Image Spatial-temporal Fusion and CASA-Model (위성영상 시공간 융합과 CASA 모형을 활용한 산지 개발사업의 식생 순일차생산량에 대한 영향 평가)

  • Jin, Yi-Hua;Zhu, Jing-Rong;Sung, Sun-Yong;Lee, Dong-Ku
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.29-42
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    • 2017
  • As the "Guidelines for GHG Environmental Assessment" was revised, it pointed out that the developers should evaluate GHG sequestration and storage of the developing site. However, the current guidelines only taking into account the quantitative reduction lost within the development site, and did not consider the qualitative decrease in the carbon sequestration capacity of forest edge produced by developments. In order to assess the quantitative and qualitative effects of vegetation carbon uptake, the CASA-NPP model and satellite image spatial-temporal fusion were used to estimate the annual net primary production in 2005 and 2015. The development projects between 2006 and 2014 were examined for evaluate quantitative changes in development site and qualitative changes in surroundings by development types. The RMSE value of the satellite image fusion results is less than 0.1 and approaches 0, and the correlation coefficient is more than 0.6, which shows relatively high prediction accuracy. The NPP estimation results range from 0 to $1335.53g\;C/m^2$ year before development and from 0 to $1333.77g\;C/m^2$ year after development. As a result of analyzing NPP reduction amount within the development area by type of forest development, the difference is not significant by type of development but it shows the lowest change in the sports facilities development. It was also found that the vegetation was most affected by the edge vegetation of industrial development. This suggests that the industrial development causes additional development in the surrounding area and indirectly influences the carbon sequestration function of edge vegetaion due to the increase of the edge and influx of disturbed species. The NPP calculation method and results presented in this study can be applied to quantitative and qualitative impact assessment of before and after development, and it can be applied to policies related to greenhouse gas in environmental impact assessment.

fMRI evidence of compensatory mechanisms during a verbal working memory task in individuals with alcohol use disorders (알코올 사용 장애자의 언어 작업 기억과 관련된 뇌의 보상 기전: fMRI 연구)

  • Park, Mi-Suk;Son, Seon-Ju;Park, Ji-Eun;Eum, Yeong-Ji;Kim, Suk-Hui;Yu, In-Gyu;Son, Jin-Hun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.101-104
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    • 2009
  • This study investigated compensatory mechanisms in the brain during a verbal working memory task among people with Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD). A total of 21 college male students participated in the study: eleven AUD participants and 10 normal controls. Study participants were asked to complete the Korean version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (K-WAIS-III) prior to the fMRI experiment. Verbal 0-back and 2-back tasks were used to assess brain activities of the participants' verbal working memory. Brain scanning was performed on Siemens SONATA 1.5T Scanner while participants were performing the 0-back and 2-back tasks. Within the AUD group, participants with greater dependency to alcohol (based on DSM-IV criteria) in the past 1 year showed lower mean score on the 'Similarities' of the K-WAIS-III (r=-0.63, p<0.05, N=11). The more participants experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms in the past 1 year, the lower the score they received on the K-WAIS-III 'Picture Arrangement' (r=-0.69, p<0.05, n=11). The fMRI regression results showed that individuals who present greater degree of alcohol dependency symptoms are likely to show greater brain activation in the bilateral middle frontal gyri (BA 9) during the verbal working memory task. The degree of alcohol withdrawal symptoms were associated with increased brain activation in the left superior and middle frontal gyri (BA8), left precentral gyrus (BA 6), and left inferior parietal lobule (BA 40). The study findings showed that the degree of alcohol abuse/dependence and withdrawal symptoms were associated with decreased cognitive function and increased activations in brain regions particularly important for abstract reasoning (BA 9), central executive (BA 9), or spatial storage (BA 40) during a working memory task. Therefore, these results could support previous studies suggesting that the neural system of people with ADD may adopt a brain compensatory mechanism to maintain normal level of cognitive functions.

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Growth Inhibition of Yeast Isolated from Processed Rice Cake with Ethanol and Organic Acids (에탄올과 유기산에 의한 가공쌀 부패효모의 생육저해 효과)

  • Kim, Jong-Shin;Lee, Hyun-Jun;Lee, Young-Tack;Chang, Hak-Gil;Park, Jong-Hyun
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2007
  • To defend putrifaction of the processed rice cake from gas-forming yeast during storage and distribution it needed to reduce and remove them. The sanitizers of ethanol and organic acids were applied on Pichia anomala, Candida tropicalis, and isolated yeasts from the putrified cut rice cake. Although growth inhibition effect by the sanitizer of 20% ethanol, 1% acetic acid, or 1% lactic acid respectively were very low, the combined sanitizer of 20% ethanol and 1% acetic acid, or 1% lactic acid showed very high sterilizing effect toward the yeasts. Six log cfu/ml of the yeast was reduced with this combined sanitizers for 30 minutes. In addition, the combined sanitizer heated from 20 to $50^{\circ}C$ had more the increased sterility. Therefore, the sanitizer of the combined ethanol with the acetic acid or the lactic acid for 30 minutes at $50^{\circ}C$ might reduce or sterilize the putrifying yeast at the processed rice cake. The result might be also applied to the effective pre-treatment of many agricultural food stuffs, against yeast, especially unsterilized stuffs, without any hazards from the special sanitizers and nutritional loss from harsh sterilization.

A Survey of the Presence of Aflatoxins in Herb Medicines (한약재중의 아플라톡신 오염도 조사)

  • Park, Sung-Kyu;Jang, Jung-Im;Ha, Kwang-Tae;Kim, Sung-Dan;Kim, Ouk-Hee;Choi, Younh-Hee;Seung, Hyun-Jeung;Kim, Si-Jung;Lee, Kyeong-Ah;Jo, Han-Bin;Choi, Byung-Hyum;Kim, Min-Young
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.169-173
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    • 2009
  • A survey of total aflatoxin levels was conducted on 145 samples(carthamiflos, thujae semen, giycyrrhizae radix et rhizoma) collected in Yakyeang markets in Seoul. Aflatoxin levels were quantified by the immunoaffinity column clean-up method followed by performance liguid chromatography(HPLC)-fluorescence detector(FLD). Aflatoxins were found in 10(6.9%)samples including 5 Arecae semen, 4 Thujae semen, 1 Zizyphi semen with a range of $0.45{\sim}79.15\;{\mu}g/kg$. Generally These results show that the contamination level of aflatoxins in Herb Medicines consumed in Korea is high compared with the standard in Korea Herb Medicine Code($10\;{\mu}g/kg$ as aflatoxin B1). It is considered that aflatoxin concentration was increased in herb medicines during a storage and drying in herb medicines examined

The Effect of Chitosan Coating Combined with Carvacrol and Thymol on Microbial and Quality Characteristics of Litopenaeus vannamei during Cold Storage (Carvacrol과 thymol을 병행처리한 키토산 코팅이 냉장저장 시 흰다리 새우의 미생물 및 품질 특성에 미치는 효과)

  • Ko, Bong Soo;Park, Mi-Jung;Gwak, Seung-Hae;Oh, Se-Wook
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.363-370
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    • 2017
  • In this study, we stored frozen shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) at $4^{\circ}C$ during 12 days and investigated the effect of chitosan coating with natural preservatives (0.05% carvacrol, 0.05% thymol) on the growth of microorganism (mesophilic bacteria, psychrophilic bacteria, Pseudomonas spp., $H_2S$ producing bacteria) and physiological characteristics (total volatile basic nitrogen and pH) and sensory evaluation (appearance, odor and general acceptance). Chitosan coating with natural antimicrobial compounds (0.05% carvacrol and 0.05% thymol) had inhibited the growth of all the target microorganism and showed the significant antimicrobial activity (p < 0.05) to mesophilic bacteria, psychrophilic bacteria and $H_2S$ producing bacteria until 12 day (the last day of this study). These treated groups had showed the significant difference (p < 0.05) in total volatile basic nitrogen and all the sensory characteristics but not in pH. Therefore, chitosan coating combined with natural antimicrobial compounds (0.05% carvacrol and 0.05% thymol) showed the effective antimicrobial activity on major spoilage microorganism on shrimp and could be used to elongate the shelf life of refrigerated shrimp.

Development of Predictive Models of Listeria monocytogenes in Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables (신선편의 냉장·냉동 과채류에서 Listeria monocytogenes의 예측모델 개발)

  • Kim, Geun Hyang;Lim, Ju Young;Kim, Yeon Ho;Yang, So Young;Yoon, Ki Sun
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.495-502
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    • 2020
  • Processing fresh produce into fresh-cut products increases the risk of bacterial growth and contamination by breaking the exterior barrier of produce. Our objective in this study was to develop predictive models of Listeria monocytogenes in the fresh-cut salad, fresh-cut pineapple, and frozen mango. Predictive growth and survival models were developed to predict the change of L. monocytogenes populations in the fresh-cut salad (4, 10, 12, 13, 17, 25, and 36℃), fresh-cut pineapple (4, 10, 17, 25, 30, and 36℃), and frozen mango (-2, -10 and -18℃) as a function of temperature. The growth of L. monocytogenes in fresh-cut salad and pineapple was observed at above 13℃ and 10℃, respectively. The growth of L. monocytogenes in pineapple was faster than in salad. The delta value of L. monocytogenes in frozen mango increased as the storage temperature decreased. The results indicate that L. monocytogenes behave differently according to the physicochemical properties of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables. Since L. monocytogenes grow and survive well in refrigerated and frozen conditions, management programs and preventive controls for the processing of fresh-cut produce should be effectively implemented to enhance the safety of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables at retail markets.

A Stidy on the Real Management of Experimental-practice and Spot-practice at Department of Food and Nutrition of Junior College in Korea (전문대학 식품영양과의 실험실습 및 현장실습 운영실태에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Seong-Sik;So, Myeong-Hwan;Nam, Gung-Seok
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.61-72
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    • 1989
  • This study was conducted to gather the baseline data on realities of experimental-practice and opinions toward spot-practice, and to examine how to cope with the problems raised at the Department of Food and Nutrition of Junior Technical College in Korea. Questionnaires were gathered from 42 chairmans of the Department of Food and Nutrition and 140 Present dieticians worked in Seoul, Bucheon am Seongnam area. The results are as follows, First, as a whole, each college had 2~3 experimental laboratory (Lab), in which Cooking Science Lab. Chemistry Lab and Microbiology Lab were occurred at higher frequency as Lab's name. Second, the numbers per experimental-practice class were more than 40 at most colleges. 85% of Present dieticians have answered to feel too much numbers per the class during their college days, whereas professors' opinions toward the numbers per class were suitable at 20~30 persons per class. Third, professors' opinion toward the adquate ratio of the theory subject classes to experimental subject classes was suitable at 60 : 40. Dieticians answered to take the theory subject classes partly or mostly on behalf of the experimental-practice classes. Fourth, the main reasons which inhibited normal experimental-practice class were the class for emphasis on examination, the shortage of experiment budget, the excess of class members, the shortage of experimental Lab Also, this results showed same propensity to present dieticians' opinion toward the same question above. Fifth, among the experimenta1-practice subjects established at the Department of Food and Nutrition, Diet Therapy Lab was highest frequency class emphasized on theory followed by Nutrition Counselling Lab, Food Processing and Storage Lab, Food Hygiene Lab and Food Microbiology Lab in that order. Here, Basic Chemistry Lab, Biochemistry Lab, Food Microbiology Lab were pointed as subjects far from the present task of dieticians. Sixth, Department of Food and Nutrition, as a whole, has conferred with spot-practice arrangement About 50% (all who want to join spot-practice) of second year students took part in spot-practice. In the other way, all colleges except for 2 colleges didn't give the credit for the spot-practice system. Seventh, according to the on analysis on spot-practice places, manufacturing company was at highest frequcney followed by hospitals, elementary school having group feeding system in that order. Especially, 16.7% (5 colleges) of the total colleges sent the students to the research institute related to food industry for spot-practice experience. Eighth, Professors' opinions toward the spot-practice time and period were preferable on summer vacation of second year and for 1~2 weeks, respectively. On the contrary, 74 dieticians answered to the adquate period as for 4 weeks. Ninth, 86 dieticians of the total 140 answered to complete the spot-practice during their college days, which helps the present task of them. Lacks of spot-practice program, Lacks of comprehension of upper personals and lacks of group feeding equipments ranks higher as difficulties in spot-practice management.

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