• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.412-421
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• 2017

Objectives: To establish a system for integrated risk assessment of EDCs in Korea, infrastructure for providing toxicity data of ecological media should be established. Some systems provide soil ecotoxicity databases along with aquatic ecotoxicity information, but a well-structured ecotoxicity database system is still lacking. Methods: Aquatic and soil ecotoxicological information were collected by a toxicologist based on a human readable data (HRD) format for collecting ecotoxicity data that we provided. Among these data, anomalies were removed according to database normalization theory. Also, the data were cleaned and encoded to establish a machine-readable data (MRD) ecotoxicity database system. Results: We have developed a multi-purpose ecotoxicity database model focusing on EDCs, ecological species, and toxic effects. Also, we have constructed a web-based data searching system to retrieve, extract, and download data with greater availability. Conclusions: The results of our study will contribute to decision-making as a tool for efficient ecological risk assessment of EDCs in Korea.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2006

Embryotoxicity tests were performed in Daphnia magna to assess aquatic ecotoxicity of bisphenol A, a well known industrial compound showing estrogen-like activity in vivo, and to examine their effectiveness in the toxicological assessment. The whole embryonic developmental period was classified into 6 stages and developmental abnormality was checked to evaluate the embryotoxicity. In the present study, bisphenol A showed the ability to interfere with embryonic development, suggesting its antiecdysteroidal activity. The rates of mortality, delayed development, deformity and immobility all showed good concentration-response relationship, demonstrating their possibility as useful toxicological indices in daphnid embryotoxicity tests that have been rarely performed so far. It seemed favorable to the test sensitivity that embryos are removed from maternal daphnids around 7 hr after deposition from the ovaries to the brood chamber. These results suggest that daphnid embryotoxicity tests can be one of useful tools available for the assessment of ecotoxicity of various chemicals in the aquatic environment.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.592-597
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• 2008

Current water quality standard (WQS) in Korea is based on the protection of human health, not considering the protection of aquatic organisms. Most of chemicals can be toxic to ecological biota as well as human. Health of aquatic biota is closely related to the human health via food chain, therefore ecological risk based-WQS needs to be developed to protect the aquatic ecosystem. In this study, we selected the 31 chemicals in the Project entitled 'Development of integrated methodology for evaluation of water environment'. The methodology for calculating water quality criteria was derived from the Australian and New Zealand processes for deriving guideline trigger value for aquatic ecosystem. The available ecotoxicity data were collected from US EPA's ECOTOXicology Database (ECOTOX), TOX-2000 Database, European Chemicals Bureau (ECB)'s International Uniform Chemical Information Database (IUCLID) and Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)'s report 'Ambient Water Quality Criteria (AWQC)'. The aquatic toxicity data for the Korean species were selected for risk assessment to reflect the Korean water environment. The monitoring values were calculated from the water quality monitoring data four main Korean rivers. We suggested the order of priorities of chemicals based on ecological risk assessment. We expect that these results can be useful information for establishing the WQS for the protection of aquatic ecosystem.

• 생태와환경
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 국제적으로 이용되고 있는 생태독성 시험종 중에서, 국내 생태독성 평가에 적용 가능한 시험종을 파악해보았다. 대상 화학물질 41개 항목에 대해 수집된 생태독성 시험종은 총 265종으로, 이 중 국내 생태독성 평가에 적용 가능한 시험종은 총 71종으로 분류되었다. 생물 분류군별로 살펴보면, 어류 7종, 무척추동물군 26종 중 환형동물 2종, 태형동물 2종, 갑각류 13종, 곤충류 3종, 연체동물 4종, 편형동물 1종, 원생동물 1종, 식물군 26종 중 규조류 9종, 녹조류 14종, 대형수생식물 3종, 기타군 12종 중 양서류 2종, 세균류 3종, 남조류 6종, 균류 1종이다. 생태독성 시험종 중 국내 시험종의 비율을 살펴보면, 26.8%로 국내 생태독성 평가에 적용 가능한 시험종이 그리 넉넉하지 않은 실정임을 알 수 있다. 따라서 국내 생태독성 평가에 적용 가능한 국내 시험종을 개발하고 더 나아가 국내종을 이용한 생태독성 시험법을 정립함으로써 국내 생태독성 평가를 위한 독성자료 구축연구가 장기적으로 추진되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 국내외 독성시험법 중에서 시험종이 국내에 서식하는 경우를 대상으로 사용된 노출 기간, 종말점 등 시험 세부 조건을 집약하여, 향후 생태독성 시험법개발 연구를 위한 각각의 생물종별 생태독성 시험법의 적용 가능한 시험 세부 조건별 범위와 생태독성평가기법 구축을 위한 방향을 제시하였다. 기존에 국내 생물종을 대상으로 국내외에서 수행된 바 있는 독성 시험법에 대한 연구 사례를 검토한 결과, OECD등의 표준시험법에서 추천한 시험종을 대상으로 한 독성자료가 상당 부분을 차지하였다. 또한 표준시험법의 공시어종 이외에도 국내 생물종에 대한 소량의 연구 자료가 있었으나, 대체로 표준시험법을 개별 상황에 맞게 수정하여 적용한 것으로 나타났다. 특히 온도는 Carassius auratus < Gasterosteus aculeatus < Oryzias latipes < Misgurnus anguillicaudatus 순으로 낮아지는 것으로 보아, 어류독성시험에 있어서 가장 유의해야 할 조건인 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같이 국내 생물종을 이용한 생태독성평가 기반이 미약한 현시점에서 보다 체계적인 독성시험법을 개발하기 위해서는 향후 실험 조건과 동일한 시스템 하에서의 생활사 측정 및 그에 따른 노출기간 설정, 본 연구에서 선정한 어류 5종을 대상으로 도출한 생태독성시험기법에 대한 실험 연구를 통한 검증 그리고 기존 연구에서 다루지 않았던 많은 국내 시험종 개발 및 그에 따른 실험 조건 규명이 선행되어야 할 것이다. 따라서 본 연구는 국내 생물종을 대상으로 한 독성시험기법 및 방향을 제시함으로써 국내 수계의 실정, 먹이 연쇄를 통한 생물종간의 상호 관련성 등을 고려할 수 있는 국내 시험종 및 그에 따른 시험법 개발을 위한 중요한 토대가 될 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2016

생태독성 관리제도가 국내에 도입된 이래 Daphnia magna(큰물벼룩)는 시험종으로 널리 사용되고 있다. 다만 D. magna는 국내 비서식종으로 국내의 담수 환경을 반영한 생태독성 평가에는 제한점이 존재한다. 따라서 국내 서식 물벼룩 중 적합한 시험종을 선정하여 생태독성 평가에 대한 활용가능성을 평가할 필요가 있다. Daphnia galeata(유리물벼룩)는 국내 한강 수계 우점종이며 대부분의 수계에 서식하고 있는 물벼룩이다. 본 연구에서는 D. galeata의 국내 고유 시험종으로서의 활용가능성을 평가하고자 D. galeata의 특성 및 생활사를 확인하여 D. magna와 비교하였다. 또한 D. galeata의 독성민감도를 확인하고자 D. galeata 및 D. magna에 대한 7종 중금속(As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Zn) 급성독성자료 조사, 수집하여 민감도를 비교분석하였다. D. galeata의 생활사 측정결과 D. galeata의 생존기간은 $28{\pm}8$일로 D. magna의 절반수준으로 나타났으며 생존기간 동안의 어미 개체당 새끼 생산량도 D. magna보다 적었으며, 평균적인 체구도 D. magna보다 D. galeata가 작았다. 독성민감도는 7종의 중금속에 대해 D. galeata가 D. magna보다 더 민감하거나 유사한 것으로 확인되었다. 장단점을 종합적으로 고려한 결과, D. galeata는 국내 고유 생태독성 시험종으로 적합하며 차후 D. magna를 대체하거나 병행하여 사용할 수 있는 시험종으로 사료된다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2008

The life cycle assessment method for environmental impact assessment was used, in this study, to assess the production process of wheat flour which is the most important material in the food industry. Environmental impact assessments were compared between that of the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea (method I) with that of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (method II). Life cycle inventories (LCI) was performed using internal and external databases and the production statistics database of company S. The procedure of life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) was followed in terms of classification, characterization, normalization and weighting to identify the key issues. The impact categories of method I were divided into 8 categories with consideration of : abiotic resources depletion, global warming, ozone depletion, photochemical oxidant creation, acidification and eutrophication. The impact categories of method II were divided into 10 categories with consideration of: abiotic resources depletion, global warming, ozone depletion, photochemical oxidant creation, acidification, eutrophication, human toxicity, freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity and terrestrial ecotoxicity.

• 한국환경보건학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경보건학회 2005년도 Proceedings of KSEH.Minamata Forum
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• pp.124-126
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• 2005

Aquatic ecotoxicity of bisphenol A, a well known endocrine disrupter in mammals, was studied using lab. reared Daphnia magna as a test organism. The static acute 48h $LC_{50}$ of bisphenol A was 12.9mg/L and 110-hr $LC_{50}$ values of bisphenol A for daphnid embryos of different ages after deposition into the brood chamber increase with ages in the range of 1.55mg/L-8.91mg/L. Bisphenol A showed the ability to inhibit embryonic development. The lethal response and developmental inhibition all showed good concentration-response relationship.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2006

Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), an octane booster that is added to the reformulated gasoline, has been a widespread contaminant in aquatic ecosystem. MTBE is a recalcitrant pollutant having low biodegradability. Due to its higher water solubility and low octanol-water partition coefficient, it can be rapidly transported to the surrounding water environment. Also, MTBE is a known animal carcinogen, and is classified as a possible human carcinogen by U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. The adverse effect of MTBE to aquatic biota was widely reported. In Korea, the recent detection of MTBE in groundwater near gasoline filling stations has drawn concern to public health and ecosystem. To address this concern, the effect of MTBE to human health and ecosystem was discussed in this review. Also, ecotoxicity data of MTBE for fish, invertebrates, and algae were extensively compared to estimate the hazard concentration 5($HC_5$) of MTBE as a screening level.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2010

Genotoxic- and ecotoxic assessments of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were conducted on the freshwater crustacean Daphnia magna. AgNPs may have genotoxic effects on D. magna, given that the DNA strand breaks increased when exposed to this nanoparticle. Increased mortality was concomitantly observed with DNA damage in the AgNPs-exposed D. magna, which suggests AgNPs-induced DNA damage might provoke higher-level consequences. The results of the comparative toxicities of AgNPs and Ag ions suggest that AgNPs are slightly more toxic than Ag ions. Overall, these results suggest that AgNPs may be genotoxic toward D. magna, which may contribute to the knowledge relating to the aquatic toxicity of AgNPs on aquatic ecosystems, for which little data are available.