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An Epidemiologic Investigation of Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli (EPEC) Outbreak in Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk, 2004 (2004년 경상북도 성주군에서 발생한 장병원성대장균의 유행에 관한 역학조사)

  • Baik, Dalh-Yeon;Yeom, Seok-Hyeon;Lee, Kwan;Lim, Hyun-Sul
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.39-50
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    • 2005
  • Objectives: This investigation was carried out to explore the source and the mode of transmission of the diarrhea outbreak in Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk, 2004 Methods: The authors conducted a questionnaire survey among the 275 persons (students, staff members and cooks) who ingested the possibly contaminated foods. We also investigated the drinking water and the dining facility, and we reviewed the process of cooking the salad, which was the presumed cause of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli(EPEC) diarrhea. The confirmed EPEC diarrheal case was defined as culture positive for EPEC, and the suspicious case was defined as diarrheal case with symptoms more than one of fever, vomiting and tenesmus. Results: The attack rate of EPEC diarrhea was 36.7%, and there were 8 confirmed cases. The possibility of the drinking being a source of the infection was very low, for chlorine was detected in all the drinking water via reviewing the past records and using a portable detector. The foods that were significantly associated with diarrhea were found. The relative risk (RR) for the lunch served Jul 7 was 4.12 (95% CI: 1.39-12.20). Among the non-boiled foods that were finally served, the RR for the salad was 1.66 (95% CI: 1.07-2.57). The cause of this outbreak was presumed to be the contaminated foods that were prepared by cooks using rubber glove with holes, and especially the salad and foods that were served sans boiling on Jul 7. Conclusions: Though this EPEC infection was not so clinically important, if a larger outbreak occurred, it might severely affect the public health. It is recommended to develop the more safe methods for cooking foods, and to strengthen the sanitary processing foods.

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Current Status and Management of Congregate Meal Service Program for the Elderly at Community Centers (사회복지관의 노인 경로식당 급식 서비스 현황)

  • Seo, Hui-Jae;Lee, Yun-Na;Jang, Yeong-Ae;Kim, Bok-Hui;Lee, Haeng-Sin;Kim, Cho-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.333-344
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    • 2004
  • To investigate current status of the elderly meal service program, community centers nationwide were surveyed for congregate meal services. The survey was conducted during the month of December 2002 by mail using self-developed questionnaire on administration, staffs, funding, and meal service management. Only 95 out of 356 community centers (27%) answered and returned the questionnaires, and congregate meal menus were also collected from 20 centers for 492 days. Results were analyzed using SAS package program. In more than half of the elderly congregate meal service programs, following criteria were used in multiple form to allow participation; 65 years old or older, low income, or living alone. All centers served lunch, most of them free of charge, and 88.4% of them provided service 5 days a week. About 79% of the total cost occurred on the congregate meal service was supported by the government. Most of the menus served at congregate meal service were Korean style dish with rice. On the average, each meal provided 3 side dishes including kimchi, in addition to soup or stew. Only 19% of the centers have employed dietitian working for meal service programs; meal menus were prepared by social welfare workers or other non-dietetic personnels in more than 80% of the centers. Food purchasing and food hygiene control was also practiced mainly by social welfare workers or cooks. This study suggests that dietetic professionals are needed to better manage meal service programs for the elderly in both aspects, food hygiene and nutrition. Development of more nutritious menus and determination of appropriate serving sizes for the elderly meal service programs are necessary to meet the RDAs and dietary action guide for the elderly.

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The Effects of the Emotional Leadership Perceived by Hotel Cuisine Employees on Empowerment, Trust and Innovative Behavior (호텔 조리종사원이 인지한 감성리더십이 임파워먼트, 신뢰 및 혁신행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Won-Sik;Lee, Soo-Bum
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to empirically analyze the influence of emotional leadership of hotel cuisine employees on empowerment, trust and innovative behavior. Selecting cooks working for ten five-star hotels in Seoul for empirical analysis, total 500 copies of questionnaire (50 copies to each hotel) were distributed for 30 days from September $23^{rd}$ to October $22^{nd}$, 2013. Excluding the ones with missing values or too much weighted tendency, total 426 copies(85.2%) were used as the final data for statistical analysis. As a result of the analysis, the verification of causal relationships between hotel cuisine employees' perceived emotional leadership and empowerment, trust and innovative behavior within organizations is valuable enough to be used as the theoretical foundation in the future. Based on the results of such in-depth analysis, hotel cuisine employees' perceived emotional leadership can be shown through interactions between leaders and employees. The effectiveness of leadership can be maximized only when leaders and employees maintain the mutual cooperative partnership to lead employees' innovative behavior by implanting empowerment and trust in employees.

The Sensory Characteristics of Brown Sauce by Adding Different Ratio of Chicken Bone (닭뼈 혼합비에 따른 Brown Sauce의 관능적 성질)

  • Lee, Jong-Pil
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.12 no.1 s.28
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    • pp.82-92
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate sensory characteristics of brown sauce made with different ratio of chicken bone. Brown sauces made from chicken bone and beef bone respectively were evaluated by pH, viscosity, turbidity, Hunter's color and sensory evaluation. With chicken bone increased, pH of brown sauce changed from 5.11 to 5.72 (p<0.05) that was lower than optimal bacterial growth condition between 6.8 and 7.0. Viscosity increased with higher chicken bone ratio (p<0.05) and desired viscosity can be obtained by controlling chicken bone content. Turbidity increased with chicken bone (p<0.05), which might be caused by the thick chicken bone extract. Lower Hunter "L" value and higher "a" and "b" value were shown with increase of chicken bone (p<0.05). The sensory evaluation was performed with scoring tests for color, flavor, viscosity and taste by 20 professional panels who were professional cooks working in I hotel. Better scores of color, flavor, taste and overall evaluation except viscosity were observed with increase of cattle bone (p<0.05). There was not a significant difference between chicken bone and beef bone 0.0 : 10.0 and 2.5 : 7.5 (p>0.05). Brown sauce made with 2.5 : 7.5 can be prepared without reducing sensory quality.

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Employee Food-hygiene and Nutrition Awareness and Performance at Child Care Centers and Kindergartens Located in Seoul (서울특별시 소재 보육시설과 유치원 종사자의 식품위생.영양 인지도 및 수행도 조사)

  • Park, Na-Yoon;Park, Hee-Kyung;Park, Hee-Jin;Seo, Min-Kyung;Im, Hye-Ran;Lim, Hwan-Hee;Jung, Jin-Hyen;Yoon, Ki-Sun
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.45-59
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted to investigate employee food-hygiene and nutrition awareness and performance and to study the current education programs for children at child care centers and kindergartens located in Seoul, Republic of Korea. A self-evaluated type of questionnaire was developed for foodservice employees and teachers using a five-point Likert scale. Employees with an employment history of <1 year and who were <30 years old had the lowest scores for food-hygiene and nutrition awareness and performance. Employees with a cooking license had a higher awareness score regarding cross-contamination than those without a license. Higher nutritional awareness and performance scores were also observed for employees who had more experience as cooks and who had received a nutrition education than those who did not. Approximately 94% and 76.4% of the employees had experience in sanitation and nutrition education, respectively. Most teachers responded that food sanitation-nutrition education for children seemed necessary in a child-care center; however, only 63.9% of the teachers actually taught sanitation-nutrition education to children. The biggest limitation to conduct food sanitation-nutrition education was the "lack of professionalism" of teachers, because only 48.1% of teachers had received a sanitation- utrition education. Thus, a food sanitation-nutrition education program for foodservice employees and teachers must be developed and implemented actively to improve the quality of food service and nutrition education in child care centers and kindergartens.

Current State and Improvement Measures of HACCP System Applying in Elementary School Lunch (HACCP 적용 초등학교급식에서의 시행실태와 개선방안)

  • Woo, Gun-Yeon;Park, Jae-Yong;Han, Chang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2003
  • To provide data necessary for effectively applying the HACCP system by understanding the current application condition of HACCP system and satisfaction level of the dietician in elementary schools, a mail-in survey was conducted on dieticians serving for 227 elementary schools applying HACCP system in Kyungsangbuk-Do since November 1, 2001 to December 20, 2001. 83.5% of the subjected schools were conducting more than 50% of HACCP cooking process management, and the level of cooking process management displayed significant relevance according to the number of dieticians serving the school meals. The area that was not well conducted in the field of HACCP system was proven to be water examination(94.0%), inspection on self-sanitation of cooks prior to cooking(90.6%), and maintenance of dry kitchen floor(l4.8%). The reason why the above areas are not well conducted was because of lack of time due to over workloads. Subjective dieticians had pointed out improvement of sanitary concept(58.1%) and improvement of self-sanitation (28.8%) as benefits of applying HACCP. 21.2% of the subjective dieticians were satisfied with application HACCP and 35.2% were dissatisfied with applying HACCP. In case of which the duration of applying the HACCP was longer than one year and in case of higher rate of HACCP cooking process management and longer work experience of the dieticians, the level of satisfaction was proven to be significantly higher. The most difficult things to follow in important management categories according to the features of dietitian work and work experience were food distribution of CCP7 step and maintenance of optimum temperature(70.7%). Subjective dieticians had pointed out insufficient facility or environment and lack of inspection equipments in order regarding problems of applying HACCP. Also in the level of necessity of improvement categories in applying HACCP, dieticians had replied that facility and equipment improvement was mostly needed. Due to the induction of HACCP system in school meals, comparatively well cooking process management is being conducted, and I believe it could contribute in securing safety and quality improvement of school meal by improving the sanitation concept of the dieticians. However, the satisfaction level of dieticians are rather low and there are many difficulties in maintaining optimum temperature in the process of food distribution and transportation process. Also, lack of facilities and environment, lack of inspection equipments and etc are pointed out as problems of inducing HACCP. Thus, to settle HACCP system, it is believed that brave investment must be preceded.

A Study on the Factors of Job Satisfaction of the Dietitians Working in Hospitals (병원영양사의 직무만족요인에 대한 조사연구)

  • 이현숙
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.651-660
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the degrees and the influence factors of job satisfaction of dietitians working in hospitals in relation to performance of duty in their works and to provide effective management of hospital dietitians for high quality health and food service in hospital. The questionaire was prepared with reference to the previous studies on job satisfaction of dietitians working in hospitals throughout the nation. 201 dietitians in the country were surveyed. The period of research was from January 20 to February 28, 1995. The results are as follows. 1) In regard to the degree of job satisfaction of hospital dietitians, they showed the highest degree of job satisfaction in the relationships with fellow dietitians followed by worth and self-confidence, aptitude and interests, relationships with cooks, job stability, degree of recognition of the dietitians competence, supervision of the superiors, degree of application of professional knowledge, work load, wage level, degree of recognition of the importance of duty, cooperative relationships with load, wage level, degree of recognition of the importance of duty, cooperative relationships with doctors, degree of performance of clinical work, the number of dietitians, the prromotion system, and welfare system in that order. On the other hand, they showed the highest dissatisfaction with food service facilities. 2) The influence factors on job satisfaction are as follows. (1) Wage factor : Shorter weekday working hours and higher bonuses make greaster job satisfaction (R2=0.3115). (2) Working condition factor : Larger number of monthly holidays(R2=0.5142), shorter weekday working hours(R2=0.1077), longer previous food service experience and computer utilization (R2=0.1432) make greater job satisfaction. (3) Welfare factor : Welfare system (R2=0.4132) and promotion system (R2=0.1624) have to do with computer utilization. Job stability has to do with marital status and computer utilization (R2=0.1165). consequently, those married dietitians who use computers show higher job satisfaction. (4) Human relationship factor : Smaller mumber of patients receiving food makes greater job satisfaction (R2=0.1334). (5) Superivision factor : Shorter weekday working hours and larger number of monthly holidays make greater job satisfaction (R2=0.1709). (6) Achievement factor : Marriage, larger number of dietitians(R2=9.2293), age, larger number of monthly holiday, higher monthly wages and computer utiliazation (R2=0.1088) make greater job satisfaction. (7) Speciality factor : Marriage, longer current hospital tenure, higher position and working in seoul(R2=0.1142) make higher job satisfaction. (8) Job inclination factor : working in general hospitals rather than in oriental hispitals, working in seoul(R2=0.1776) and better bonuses(R2=0.1078)make greater job satisfaction. As a result, the following is suggested for the job satisfaction of hospital dietitions on the basis of this study : hospital dietitians can achieve miximum job satisfaction through smooth relationships with coworkers, and the responsible managers should improve welfare and working conditions for the job satisfaction of hospital dietitians.

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Service Worker Technology and Standardization (서비스워커 기술 및 표준화 동향)

  • Hwang, Hyun-seo;Kim, Sung-hyun;Jung, Yong-jin;Park, Jong-geun;Kim, Tae-yong;Kim, Tae-hwan;Moon, Il-young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.656-659
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    • 2015
  • Recently, due to the standard of a new browser developed by the Google and Mozilla "Service Worker", future users is expected to be able to make use of favorite Web sites offline. Google's is, Web sites have developed a standard of a new browser so as to always respond to user requests. Service Worker, websites that provide space capable of offline work to the user's browser to store various document information, to provide the necessary resources. Then, in order to greatly reduce the data exchange operations between the browser and the server, the speed of the Web page increases. Not only cooks as native app that can use the Web application offline, in that us to also further enhance the characteristics of an existing Web application that is running without installing destructive high technology. Service worker specifications, use experience of Web application is very can be improved, is an innovative technology indicates the version of the web evolve as the future of the platform. Service Worker is not included in HTML5 standard final, is currently being continued standardization. Future Service Worker technology I expect what kind of thing unfolds when applied to the Web browser.

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A Study on Foodservice Operation for a Menu Strategy in Expressway Rest Areas (고속도로 휴게소의 메뉴전략을 위한 외식서비스실태연구)

  • Bai, Young-Hee
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2012
  • This study was planned for an empirical review of foodservice operation in expressway rest areas for a menu strategy targeting staff and customers. The results were as follows. Main foodservice category included 10-30 items of Korean dishes. The needs for having branded foodservice menu in rest areas were high in fusion/fast foods, snack/ready-made and beverages. Employment of professional cooks in rest areas was low (10-30%), and the most important factor was 'taste' when cooking Korean foods. Foreigners preferred fusion/fast foods and snack/ready-made foods to Korean food, beverages and Japanese/Chinese foods, and most of the foreigners ordered food with 'no question'(55.5%) or 'some questions'(34.8%). Rest area staff prepared some photos/pictures of foods (80-100%) for menu comprehension, but the accuracy of menu transcription was very low. Customers used a rest area once or twice, stayed for 10-20 min(43.6%)/20-30 min(38.6%), visited by car(77.7%) to relax and use toilets(61.6%) on average. Favorite food and snacks were Korean(32.7%) and ready made/snacks(33.0%), and they spent 5,000-10,000 won(51.3%), 3,000-5,000 won(25.8%) on them. Customer satisfaction with rest areas was 'average' regardless of gender, age, education levels and jobs. With this analysis, we should prepare an efficient menu strategy for customer satisfaction and plans for analyzing problems along with alternatives.

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A Study on the Job Satisfaction of School Foodservice Employees in Northern Gyeonggi (경기 북부 지역 학교 급식 종사원의 직무 만족도에 관한 연구)

  • Min Kyung-Chan;Lee Myung-Ho;Park Hae-Won;Park Young-Sim;Shin Yong-Chill;Cho Gyu-Bong;Rhie Kyoung-Ik;Jeaung Koang-Ock;Shin Yim-Sook;Yoon Hee-Sun
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.193-200
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    • 2006
  • The objective of this study was to identify factors affecting the job satisfaction of cooks employed in school foodservice and to propose a plan to improve school foodservice quality. Therefore, in this paper, we examined the job satisfaction of 119 elementary school foodservice employees in the Northern Gyeonggi Province using a 5-point scale method. The results were analyzed by the SPSS Package Program(Ver 12.0) to determine percentages and frequency. Among the employees, 99.2% were women, and 75.9% were employed by contract. All of the subjects worked in elementary schools with self operated foodservice system and 57.6% of them served food in the classroom. The total number of diners served by these foodservice programs was $1,391.6{\pm}307.6$ an average of $135.0{\pm}18.2$ diners per cook. Among the foodservice employees, 82.2% had completed high school academic courses, and 98.4% had never changed jobs. Their overall degree of job satisfaction degree was relatively high at $3.05{\pm}0.85$, but the wage and welfare system($2.45{\pm}0.86$), and the merit rating methods($2.25{\pm}0.87$) ranked among the lowest in the job satisfaction survey. On the other hand, the relationships between the managers and the coworkers marked relatively higher at $3.02{\pm}1.03$, compared with other aspects of job satisfaction. As for the work environment, the scaled score was $2.38{\pm}0.85$. Finally the ranking of achieving job improvement through education($3.28{\pm}0.93$), and the effectiveness of education($3.58{\pm}0.78$) showed us the importance and necessity of education.