• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제31권
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• pp.24.1-24.7
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• 2016

The humidifier disinfectant disaster (HDD) was not a simple poisoning accident by biocides, but a singular disaster in history created by chemicals in household products. This disaster was a result of the failure of a system for the management of chemical and product safety. Since the management authority for chemical usage safety is different from those for chemical safety in products, many blind areas for chemical safety management in products still remain. The 'Act on the Registration and Evaluation, etc. of Chemical Substances (ARECS)' or the new 'Biocidal Product Act' must not only address the blind areas in the management system for chemical and product safety, but also prevent a second HDD. To prevent another HDD, an integrated registration, evaluation, and management system for chemicals and consumer products must be incorporated into the 'ARECS' as an essential part for chemical safety in consumer products.

• 식품과학과 산업
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2017

Control of food pathogens is critical in food safety field. Norovirus is one of the major causes of gastroenteritis and food poisoning worldwide, however, currently, there is not a vaccine or a specific drug available for its treatment. There are several methods to inactivate norovirus during food processing by chemical and physical treatments, however, the use of natural substance has been suggested as an optional strategy due to their safety and consumer preference. In this study supported by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in Korea, we identified novel plant-derived substances with significant anti-norovirus activities. The aim of this project was to determine the antiviral activity of a wide range of natural substances, including plant-derived extracts and essential oils, using a norovirus surrogate system, human norovirus replicon-bearing cells, and mouse in vivo experiments. During the activity screening test, we identified novel anti-norovirus substances or oils using plaque assay with MNV-1. Six selected substances were formulated into an optimum mixture and used as an ingredient for salad sauce of which anti-novovirus activity was confirmed(pending for patent and paper submission). The potential application of selected natural substances as a metal surface sanitizer was also tested. Interestingly, the mixture of selected natural compounds showed a significant inhibitory effect against norovirus. These results suggest that these substances may be used as food ingredient with anti-norovirus antivity or components for surface sanitizers to prevent norovirus contamination.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.425-432
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• 2021

A tidal power plant (TPP) has been in operation since the end of 2011 to improve the water quality of Shihwa Coastal Reservoir (SCR). Tidal mixing rate increased 5.6 times after the TPP operation so that in this study, its effects on water quality was assessed through statistical analysis of long-term water quality monitoring data. It was found that the increased tidal mixing contributed to solving the hypoxia problem in the bottom water by preventing the summer stratification. The analysis also showed that the increased tidal mixing had different effects depending on the relative concentration difference for each water quality substances between the SCR and the outside of SCR. The average concentrations of some substances (chemical oxygen demand, total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a) with higher concentrations than the outside of SCR decreased due to the dilution effect, but the other substances (total nitrogen, dissolved inorganic nitrogen, dissolved inorganic phosphorus) with lower concentrations compared to the outside ones increased on the contrary. Factor analysis also showed a consistent result that the first factor accounting for the water quality was changed from the organic-related substances to the nutrient-related substances after the increased tidal mixing. These results imply that the focus of future water quality management needs shifting from the organic substances to the nutrients, particularly dissolved inorganic nutrients. Considering the effect of inflow seawater on the nutrients, the management area should be extended to cover not only SCR but also a certain area outside of SCR.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2017

Even if several chemical accident prevention systems such as PSM(Process Safety Management), RMP(Risk Management Plan), etc. have been carried out, many chemical accidents have still occurred at industrial plants in Korea. We describe the status of chemical industry and the trend of occurrence of chemical accidents in Korea. And this paper analyzes the recent chemical accidents in eight ways. These ways include chemical accident forms, ignition sources, sources of chemical equipment, human vs equipment/material causes, worker's working situation, employee scale, hazardous substances, week & time, fatalities of manufacture & contractor's workers. Finally we proposes the four representative prevention measures brought to result of cause analysis by accident statistics.

• 보존과학회지
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• 제19권
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• pp.19-30
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• 2006

저습지에서 출토된 상수리나무를 재료로 세척에 따른 수침고목재 내 이물질의 제거 효과와 물리 화학적 특성 변화를 파악하였던 바 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. 수침고목재에 나타나는 대부분의 무기성분은 수침고목재가 매몰된 토양환경의 성분과 거의 동일하였다. 보존처리 현장에서 적용하고 있는 세척방법 즉, 도구법, 탈기법, EDTA법 및 초음파세척법을 적용하여 독립적 혹은 연속적 방법으로 수침고목재를 세척하였다. 독려세척의 경우 도구법에 의해 표면에 고착된 이물질이 효과적으로 제거되었고, EDTA 처리에 의해 표면 색상이 밝아졌다. 그러나 탈기법과 초음파에 의한 세척효과는 나타나지 않았다. 연속 세척의 경우 1단계 세척(도구법)은 독립세척과 동일한 효과를 얻었으며, 2단계 세척인 탈기법은 수침고목재 내에 있는 이물질을 제거하지 못했다. 탈기법이 무기물의 제거에는 적절하지 않았지만, 탈기 후 수침고목재가 균일화되어 치수안정제의 침투를 용이하게 하는 역할은 결코 무시할 수 없을 것으로 사료된다. 3단계 EDTA처리는 수침고목재 내의 철분(Fe)을 제거함으로써 수침고목재의 색상이 밝아지는 효과를 얻을 수 있었다. 4단계 세척은 3단계 세척시 목재 내에 잔류한 약품(Na)과 미세 이물질의 제거에 효과적이었다.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.653-693
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• 2009

본 연구는 한국의 환경투입산출모형을 이용하여 유독물질 및 발암물질의 산업별 배출강도와 배출량 변동에 대한 경제적 요인을 분석하고, 배출 감축을 위한 정책조합을 제시한 것이다. 분석에 이용된 자료는 2000년~2007년의 산업별 화학물질 배출량과 산업연관표 자료이다. 분석결과, 동기간 중 발암물질의 배출은 감소하였으나, 유독물질의 배출은 증가하고 있다. 유독물질의 총배출 강도가 높은 산업은 출판인쇄 및 복제(12), 기타운송장비(26), 펄프종이 및 종이제품(11), 가죽가방 및 신발(9), 섬유직물(7) 등이며, 발암물질의 TEI가 높은 산업은 목재 및 나무제품(10), 자동차 및 트레일러(25), 고무 및 플라스틱제품(15), 영상음향 및 통신장비(23) 등이다. 유독물질과 발암물질의 변동에 크게 기여한 경제적 요인은 생산 과정에서의 배출계수 관리와 수요면의 최종수요 요인으로 나타났다. 배출량을 효율적으로 감축하기 위한 정책 수단의 조합은 물질군별로 산업부문별로 상이하게 나타난다. 섬유직물(7), 컴퓨터 및 사무용기기(21), 운송장비(26) 등은 배출계수를 관리하는 것이 효율적이며, 조립금속제품(18)은 최종수요를 관리하는 것이 효율적이다. 배출계수 관리가 이루어지고 있는 가구 및 기타제조업(27), 고무 및 플라스틱(15)은 최종수요 관리가 적극 추진되어야 하며, 자동차(25), 코크스석유정제(13), 1차금속(17), 화학(14)은 배출계수 관리와 보조적인 최종수요 관리가 요구되는 부문이다. 이러한 정책 조합은 인체유해 화학물질 감축을 위한 환경정책의 수단에서 산업부문별 물질군별 우선순위를 결정하는 근거가 될 수 있다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.37-50
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• 2013

It is not an exaggeration to say that modern chemicals take a leading place in our life, and people live with the chemicals, having a huge impact on their daily life. The chemical industry in South Korea, ranked seventh in the world, is one of the key industries that are forming greater part of Korean economy. The actual state of the chemical industries, however, is that over 14 tons of hazardous chemicals are being discharged annually and threaten people's lives with a lack of knowledge of its potential danger. In this way, not only beneficial to us, some of these substances, All chemicals, but also present a threat fundamentally our living environment to hazards to human health and the environment, accidents such chemicals, unlike accidents general understanding the scale of damage and propagation velocity has a complex very difficult risk profile, that can occur during deployment of an accident type is also very diverse. Is the actual situation of public concern against harmful chemicals management's is amplified by the chemical accident in the wake such accidents, government and corporate and reactive system and management system prior to the chemical accident the need for communication to exchange ideas with each other between residents, providing information is important. Therefore, the government departments and corporations, which manage variety of chemicals, ought to contribute toward a development of national security by rigid control over the Hazardous chemicals.

• 분석과학
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.381-386
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• 2013

본 연구는 유해화학물질관리법에 지정되어 있는 사고대비물질 중 휘발성과 화재위험성 등급이 높은 알릴클로라이드(allyl chloride, AC)와 이황화탄소(carbon disulfide, CD)에 대하여 테들라 백에서의 보존 특성을 연구하였다. 테들라 백에서의 시료 보존성을 연구하기 위하여 시료 보존성에 영향을 줄 수 있는 시료보관 온도($2^{\circ}C$, $25^{\circ}C$), 물질 농도(저농도, 고농도), 보관 시간(0시간, 48시간, 96시간, 144시간), 단일물질과 혼합물질 등의 영향인자를 비교하여 연구하였다. 테들라 백 내에서의 시료 보존율은 시간 경과에 따라 감소하였고 각 영향인자에 대한 T-검정결과 농도와 혼합형태에 따라 유의한 차이를 보였다. 본 연구결과는 테들라 백을 사용하여 시료 채취 시 대상물질에 대한 정량적 분석정보를 제공하는데 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.3637-3641
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• 2014

In this study, we analyzed the toxicity of mixtures of dimethylformamide (DMF) and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) or DMF and toluene (TOL) and predicted their toxicity using quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). A QSAR model for single substances and mixtures was analyzed using multiple linear regression (MLR) by taking into account the statistical parameters between the observed and predicted $EC_{50}$. After preprocessing, the best subsets of descriptors in the learning methods were determined using a 5-fold cross-validation method. Significant differences in physico-chemical properties such as boiling point (BP), specific gravity (SG), Reid vapor pressure (rVP), flash point (FP), low explosion limit (LEL), and octanol/water partition coefficient (Pow) were observed between the single substances and the mixtures. The $EC_{50}$ of the mixture of DMF and TOL was significantly lower than that of DMF. The mixture toxicity was directly related to the mixing ratio of TOL and MEK (MLR $EC_{50}$ equation = $1.76997-1.12249{\times}TOL+1.21045{\times}MEK$), as well as to SG, VP, and LEL (MLR equation $EC_{50}=15.44388-19.84549{\times}SG+0.05091{\times}VP+1.85846{\times}LEL$). These results show that QSAR-based models can be used to quantitatively predict the toxicity of mixtures used in manufacturing industries.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.318-321
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• 2007

Pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, causes pine wilt disease in a number of Pinus species, which is one of the most serious plant diseases in forest, Korea. In the course of a search for nematicidal substances from endophytic fungi, Fusarium oxysporum EF119 out of the 23 fungal strains tested showed the strongest activity to B. xylophilus. Two nematicidal substances were isolated and identified as bikaverin and fusaric acid. Fusaric acid showed somewhat higher nematicidal activity against B. xylophilus than bikaverin; fusaric acid and bikaverin, at $100{\mu}g/ml$, killed B. xylophilus with mortality values of 50% and 43%, respectively. In addition, both compounds acted synergistically. This is the first report on the nematicidal activity of bikaverin and fusaric acid.