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A Study on Satisfaction of School Food Service Using Environment-friendly Agricultural Products (친환경농산물을 활용한 학교급식 만족도 조사)

  • Han, Byeol;Kim, Ho;Yang, Sung-Bum
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.559-570
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    • 2018
  • The objective of this study is to investigate the satisfaction and the perception of school food service using environmental-friendly agricultural product of elementary, middle and high school students and parents. We surveyed related to satisfaction of school food service, perception of environmental-friendly agricultural product and perception of school food service using environmental-friendly agricultural product. As a result, the majority of students and parents want to expand the school food service using environmental-friendly agricultural product. Also It was analyzed that the use of environmental-friendly agricultural products would increase school food service satisfaction. In other words, the using environmental-friendly products in school food service experience positive effects thorough school food service, it will give a positive effect on the satisfaction of school food service. As a results of this study contribute to making policy about expansion school food service.

Applications of Microfluidics in the Agro-Food Sector: A Review

  • Kim, Giyoung;Lim, Jongguk;Mo, Changyeun
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.116-125
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    • 2016
  • Background: Microfluidics is of considerable importance in food and agricultural industries. Microfluidics processes low volumes of fluids in channels with extremely small dimensions of tens of micrometers. It enables the miniaturization of analytical devices and reductions in cost and turnaround times. This allows automation, high-throughput analysis, and processing in food and agricultural applications. Purpose: This review aims to provide information on the applications of microfluidics in the agro-food sector to overcome limitations posed by conventional technologies. Results: Microfluidics contributes to medical diagnosis, biological analysis, drug discovery, chemical synthesis, biotechnology, gene sequencing, and ecology. Recently, the applications of microfluidics in food and agricultural industries have increased. A few examples of these applications include food safety analysis, food processing, and animal production. This study examines the fundamentals of microfluidics including fabrication, control, applications, and future trends of microfluidics in the agro-food sector. Conclusions: Future research efforts should focus on developing a small portable platform with modules for fluid handling, sample preparation, and signal detection electronics.

Raman Chemical Imaging Technology for Food and Agricultural Applications

  • Qin, Jianwei;Kim, Moon S.;Chao, Kuanglin;Cho, Byoung-Kwan
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.170-189
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: This paper presents Raman chemical imaging technology for inspecting food and agricultural products. Methods The paper puts emphasis on introducing and demonstrating Raman imaging techniques for practical uses in food analysis. Results & Conclusions: The main topics include Raman scattering principles, Raman spectroscopy measurement techniques (e.g., backscattering Raman spectroscopy, transmission Raman spectroscopy, and spatially offset Raman spectroscopy), Raman image acquisition methods (i.e., point-scan, line-scan, and area-scan methods), Raman imaging instruments (e.g., excitation sources, wavelength separation devices, detectors, imaging systems, and calibration methods), and Raman image processing and analysis techniques (e.g., fluorescence correction, mixture analysis, target identification, spatial mapping, and quantitative analysis). Raman chemical imaging applications for food safety and quality evaluation are also reviewed.

Development Strategies of Agri-food Exportation for Agricultural Export Promotion in Korea (우리나라 수출농업 활성화를 위한 농식품 수출 발전방안)

  • Cho, Sung-Je
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.203-224
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    • 2010
  • With the launching WTO, the world economy has been changing new competitive environment. Agricultural exports should be pursued actively in the market of opening era to develop the foreign agricultural product market and to improve the domestic agribusiness quality and strengthen its competitiveness. The purpose of this is paper is to understand agricultural export status of Korea to detect challenges and matter for improvement, to find new measures of export strategy for the foreign market, recent emerging export promotion with high potential growth, and to increase Korea agricultural export to new world market by using a new method. The profit and loss status is volatile since the agricultural export is in its infancy. However, we have learned lessons from previous success and failure that prior analyzing of agricultural export feasibility, phased-in expansion of agri-food export volume, connection of agri-food export and agri-food market policy. In relation to this, this paper introduces Efficient and Effective Utilization of Communal Facilities in agri-food export. Consequently, First, Export promotion scheme for agri-food is to precise analysis of import countries and to collection agri-food export procedure and agri-food market system. Second, In order to expand export agricultural products to new world market, we need to direct 3rd support program to enhancing competitiveness in expanding export of agricultural export.

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A Study on Consumer's Attitude for Food Safety and Purchase of Environment Friendly Agricultural Products (소비자의 식품안전에 대한 태도와 친환경농산물 구매행동에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Sook
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.15-32
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    • 2007
  • This study is to assess the level or consumer's attitude or food safety and their effects on the purchase or environment friendly agricultural products. For these purposes, the survey was implemented to 550 adults who resided in Seoul and metropolitan area. As a results, a lot of respondents perceived the five food hazards, pesticides, food additives, BSE, chemical materials, GMOs as the severest food risks. Results revealed that women, the most educated, married, and the older respondents were more likely to be negative about food safely. And Also, consumer's knowledge of environment friendly agricultural products was lower than the median. The respondents who have bought environment friendly agricultural products were 80.5% of the entire respondents. Also, the educated and the consumers who had the knowledge of the environment friendly agricultural products started to purchase them. The consumers who had higher income, perceived the food hazards(BSE), assessed agricultural products safety negatively, had willingness to pay them and more knowledge of environment friendly agricultural products were likely to purchase them usually.

NON-DESTRUCTIVE DETECTION FOR FOREIGN MATERIALS IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS USING X-RAY SYSTEM

  • Morita, Kazuo;Tanaka, Shun'ichirou;Ogawa, Yukiharu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1996.06c
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    • pp.334-343
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    • 1996
  • Quality evaluation for food and agricultural products have always been one of the most elusive problems associated with the handling , processing and marketing in a food plant production. In order to detect physical foreign materials in food and agricultural products, non-destructive techniques have been developed for many years. Application of X-ray system to detect physical foreign materials in food and agricultural products could be considered to be a high potential method. Especially , it is impossible to detect internal physical foreign materials by visual inspections. In this study, it was tried to be applied for two different X-ray devices. Soft X-ray system with CdTe sensor and X-ray CT scanner were evaluated for advantage of the detection of non-meltallic foreign materials in food and agricultural products . Though the soft X-ray is not a high energy radiation, it is possible to detect small different density in a material. The CdTe sensor has a high resolution for t e soft X-ray energy region. The density characteristics of foods and foreign material were expressed region. The density characteristics of foods and foreign materials were expressed as a soft X-ray energy spectrum. The energy spectrum was analyzed by a personal computer with a multi-channel analyzer. X-ray CT scanner can provide visual image and analyze by three dimensional information inside food and agricultural products. The X-ray CT scanner using as a medical equipment was used to detect a foreign material. The density characteristics of food and foreign materials in food were tried to be detected by the threshold value on the basis of the CT numbers. The soft X-ray absorption characteristics for acrylin plates and distilled water were obtained and could be found the possibility of detecting a small physical foreign materials such as a plastic wrapping film , a stone and grasshopper in food and agricultural products.

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Food-Grade Expression and Secretion Systems in Lactococcus

  • Jeong, Do-Won;Hwang, Eun-Sun;Lee, Hyong-Joo
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.485-493
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    • 2006
  • Lactococcus species are noninvasive and nonpathogenic microorganisms that are widely used in industrial food fermentation and as well-known probiotics. They have been modified by traditional methods and genetic engineering to produce useful food-grade materials. The application of genetically modified lactococci in the food industry requires their genetic elements to be safe and stable from integration with endogenous food microorganisms. In addition, selection for antibiotic-resistance genes should be avoided. Several expression and secretion signals have been developed for the production and secretion of useful proteins in lactococci. Food-grade systems composed of genetic elements from lactic acid bacteria have been developed. Recent developments in this area have focused on food-grade selection markers, stabilization, and integration strategies, as well as approaches for controlled gene expression and secretion of foreign proteins. This paper reviews the expression and secretion signals available in lactococci and the development of food-grade markers, food-grade cloning vectors, and integrative food-grade systems.