• 환경영향평가
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.391-402
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• 2020

국내 법적 근거를 가진 건강영향평가(Health Impact Assessment)는 환경영향평가 항목 중 위생공중보건 항목에서 작성 수행되고 있다. 택지개발 등 주거지 개발사업들은 「환경보건법」 제13조에 따른 건강 영향평가 대상사업은 아니다. 하지만 환경영향평가협의회 단계에서 인근 산업단지 등 오염원에서 배출되는 물질 중 건강영향평가 대상물질을 확인하여 위해도(발암·비발암 포함)를 산정하여 제시하라는 심의내용에 근거하여 부분적인 건강영향평가로 수행하고 있다. 주거지 개발사업은 특정대기유해물질 등 오염물질 배출시설 계획이 없지만 주변 산업단지와 같은 대기오염 발생원에서 배출되는 오염물질에 의해 향후 입주하는 계획지구 주민들에게 건강영향을 미칠 수가 있다. 본 연구에서는 실제 도시개발사업 사례를 분석하여 미래에 입주하는 계획지구 입주민들에게 미치는 영향을 검토하고자 하였다. 미래에 영향 검토 시 주변지역에 대한 문헌을 통한 예측 case1, 대기확산모델(AERMOD)을 이용한 발암성물질 노출농도예측과 기여도 분석 case2를 하였다. 본 연구를 통해 계획지구 인근 산업단지 등의 오염원에 대한 수용체를 고려한 건강영향평가 방법으로는 현황조사와 대기확산모델(AERMOD)을 이용한 노출농도예측 및 기여도분석을 상호 보완적으로 적용하여 평가하는 것이 효용성이 높은 것으로 판단되었다.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제10권1_2호
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• pp.1-14
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• 1995

The purpose of this research is to assess the health risk of pollutants in drinking water and recommend the guidelines and management plans for maintaining good quality of drinking water. This study has been funded as a national project for three years from 1992 to 1995. This study(the second year, 1993-1994) was conducted to monitor 32 species of carcinogenic chemicals such as volatile organic compounds(VOCs), polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs), pesticides and heavy metals of drinking water at some area in six cities of Korea, and evaluate health risk due to these chemicals through four main steps of risk assessment in drinking water. In hazard identification, 32 species of carcinogenic chemicals were identified by the US EPA classification system. In the step of exposure assessment, sampling of raw, treated and tap water from the public water supply system had been conducted from 1993 to 1994, and 32 chemicals were analyzed. In dose-response assessment, cancer potencies, unit risk estimates and virtually safe doses of carcinogens were obtained by TOX-RISK (Version 3.1). In risk characterization of detected chemicals, health risk due to carcinogens such as vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride, dichloromethane, 1, 2-dichloromethane, chloroform, benzene and arsenic of tap water in several cities exceeded 10$^{-5}$ level. We suggest that non-regulated chemicals which exceed 10$^{-5}$ excess cancer risk level, such as vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and 1, 2-dichloroethane, should be monitored periodically and be regulated by the Drinking Water Management Act, and database for exposure parameter of our own situation should be established.

• 환경정책연구
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.67-90
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• 2008

본 연구의 목적은 실내 공기내의 유해화학물질의 농도 수준에 영향을 줄 수 있는 요소들을 통합적으로 고려하여 실내 공기질의 관리 전략을 수립하는 것이다. 이러한 목적으로 서울대에서는 실내 공기내의 유해화학물질의 농도 예측을 위한 '통합적 실내 공기질 모델(IIAQ)'을 개발한 바 있다. 본 연구에서는 IIAQ 모델을 사용하여 실내 공기내 유해화학물질의 농도를 도출하고 이 결과를 바탕으로 연구에서 제시된 시나리오에 따른 인체 위해성 평가를 수행하였다. IIAQ 모델을 통해 예측된 톨루엔과 포름알데히드의 10년 평균 농도는 실내에서 207.3 $ug/m^3$, 36.4 $ug/m^3$, 실외에서의 측정값은 55.9 $ug/m^3$, 8.62 $ug/m^3$으로 현재 실내 공기질 기준에 이하인 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 위해성 평가 결과, 포름알데히드의 노출로 인해서 예상 가능한 발암 위해도가 성인 남성 그룹에서 최대 1.05E-03인 것으로 나타났으며, 모든 수용체 그룹에서 자연적인 암 발생률인 1E-06을 초과하는 것으로 나타났다. 반면, 톨루엔에 대한 비발암 위해도는 모든 수용체 그룹에 대해서 1보다 작은 것으로 나타나, 심각하게 우려할 만한 비 발암 위해성이 나타날 가능성은 낮은 것으로 생각된다. 한편 본 연구에서 수행된 신축 공동주택에서 신축 후 10년간의 관심 화학물질인 톨루엔 및 포름알데히드에 농도 변화에 대한 모델링 결과 실내 오염원이 실외 오염원에 비해 실내 공기 오염에 더 큰 비중을 차지하는 것으로 나타나, 유해물질 위해도를 저감하기 위해서는 우선적으로 주요 실내 공기 오염원을 감소시킬 수 있는 전략이 수립되어야 할 필요가 있는 것으로 생각된다. 그리고 위해성 평가 결과는 현재의 실내 공기오염 기준치에 준하게 노출되었을 경우에 발암 위해성이 있을 수 있으므로, 현재의 실내 공기오염 기준치는 실내 외 오염원으로부터의 모든 노출 경로에 대한 총 노출량을 감안하여 총 노출 및 위해성을 감소시킬 수 있는 적절한 기준치로 재정립 되어야 할 필요가 있는 것으로 생각된다.

• Carbon letters
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.117-120
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• 2003

Asbestos is being replaced throughout the world among friction materials because of its carcinogenic nature. This has raised an important issue of heat dissipation in the non-asbestos brake pad materials being developed for automobiles etc. It has been found that two of the components i.e. carbon fibres as reinforcement and graphite powder as friction modifier, in the brake pad material, can playa vital role in this direction. The study reports the influence of these modifications on the thermal properties like coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and thermal conductivity along with the mechanical properties of nonasbestos brake pad composite samples developed in the laboratory.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.103-108
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• 1999

This study focused on risk assessment for inhalation of airborne volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in Ulsan industrial complex area. For non-carcinogenic risk, even the highest hazard index of toluene was estimated to be $4.8\times10^{-2}$, which was much lower than 1. The total hazard index of VOCs was estimated to be $5.8\times10^{-2}$. However, lifetime average cancer risk from the inhalation of airborne VOCs was estimated to be about $1.1\times10^{-3}/$, which was much higher than a risk standard of $10^{-5}$. The risk of $4.4\times10^{-5}$. came from benzene, the only human carcinogen among VOCs, while that of $1.05\times10^{-3}$ from probable human carcinogens including 1,3-butadiene and 1,2-dichloroethane. About 70% and 20% of total VOC cancer risk was due to the inhalation of 1,3-butadiene and 1,2-dichloroethane, respectively. Therefore, proper risk management of these 3 VOCs was required for the protection of health from cancer burden in Ulsan industrial complex area.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제17권
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• pp.219-225
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• 2001

The basic structure for assessment of potential health risks from environmental chemicals is widely agreed upon, but many of the details of risk assessment procedures differ among practitioners. Government regulatory agencies typically have guidelines or standard procedures for their risk assessments, established to ensure consistency and comparability, to set standards for adequacy, and to embody underlying tenets. In setting and updating such guidelines, each agency takes into account not only the prevailing thinking about appropriate procedures, but also its own goals and responsibilities and the precedents it has set for itself in past analyses. This results in variations in methods, and consequently in characterization of risks, among regulatory assessments, even when they are based on the same data. As a result, adopting existing assessments from a variety of regulatory bodies needs to be done with caution. This paper examines some of the variants in risk assessment approaches among American federal regulatory agencies and relates them to the variations in regulatory responsibilities of those groups. Comparisons to international practices are also drawn. The impact on development of world-wide risk standards is discussed.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.133-135
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• 2011

The FDA guidance focuses on the use of the NOAEL to establish the maximum recommended starting dose. The majority of NOAEL has been described inaccurately or incompletely in final reports for 90-days repeated dose toxicity test based on GLP (good laboratory practice) regulation. This is the most serious one of reasons for why most pharmaceutical companies targeting global markets have disregarded the final report produced from GLP facilities in Korea. The problems in deciding NOAEL reflected in the final reports are mainly due to the followings; 1) Inaccurate description or use of NOEL, NOAEL and LOAEL, 2) Insufficient and inappropriate interpretations in findings from toxicity test. This paper is intended to provide the insight into distinguishing NOAEL from NOEL and LOAEL, and into classifying findings from toxicity test. Here, the three step method is newly suggested by applying the weight-based classification to the NOEL, NOAEL and LOAEL based on the findings.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.154-160
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• 2000

Aflatoxin B1 is known as the most potent mycotoxin produced by several fungi. It has been demonstrated to be not only carcinogenic but teratogenic and mutagenic as well in humans. To prevent or inactivate aflatoxins, several chemical of physical methods were tested for ammoniation, using insecticides as an wxample, but they were unsuitable for food products. On the contrary, biological control by antagonistic microorgani는 is and ideal method. In order to control aflatoxin B1 biologically, the antagonists #07, #63, #75, #74, and #61 were separated from various samples by using the antagonistic activity test. Among them, culture filtrate part A (non heat-treated) of #63 and #74 on aflatoxin B1 produced by Aspergillus fkavus were shown to be 95% and 75%, respectively. Based on the morphological characteristics, #63 was deduced as an Azospirillum sp.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2012

This study investigated the human health risks of trichloroethylene from Industrial Complex A. The excessive carcinogenic risks for central tendency exposure were $1.40{\times}10^{-5}$ for male and female residents in the vicinity of Industrial Complex A. The excessive cancers risk for reasonable maximum exposure were $2.88{\times}10^{-5}$ and $1.97{\times}10^{-5}$ for males and females, respectively. These values indicate that there are potential cancer risks for exposure to these concentrations. The hazard index for central tendency exposure to trichloroethylene was 1.71 for male and female residents. The hazard indexes for reasonable maximum exposure were 3.27 and 2.41 for males and females, respectively. These values were over one, which is equivalent to the threshold value. This result showed that adverse cancer and non-cancer health effects may occur and that some risk management of trichloroethylene from Industrial Complex A was needed.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to conduct the field validation of alternative method(ETM method) by using non-carcinogenic, and less toxic solvents than NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) analytical method 5524 for measuring the airborne metalworking fluids in workplaces. We carried out the field validation test by using the exposure chamber, guaranteeing the air sampling homogeneously in a machining environment. The ETM mixed solvent presented the complete solubility of MWFs used in test field. Based on the field test data, the bias of the ETM method from reference method, NIOSH analytical method 5524, was from -7.0% to 5.1%. The overall uncertainty of the ETM nethod was 21.6%, which satisfied the NIOSH criteria for the sampling and analytical criteria.