This study was performed to evaluate the drying characteristics of food waste in oil vacuum evaporation system withdrying conditions and composition of food waste. The food waste was collected and separated into 4 categories such asvegetables, fruits, grain (rice), meats and others. which composition were 41.9%, 26.7%, 2.8%, 25.5% and 0.4%,respectively. Each food waste separated was dried and compared its characteristics in the same condition of vacuumpressure (−450mmHg), temperature (110oC) and mixing ratio (oil:food waste=1:1) for 90min of drying period. Theexperimental results showed that the moisture contents of dried vegetables, fruits and meats were less than 10%. Howeverthe grain was hard to be dried which moisture content was much high as 24.5%. This high value of the grain was thoughtdue to the viscosity of grain which prohibit oil penetration and water vaporization during drying process. In order tocompare drying characteristics with operating parameters, vacuum pressure, temperature and mixing oil type were changed.The operating temperature and vacuum pressure were major sensitive parameters. As the temperature increase and thepressure lower, the drying rate of food waste was increased and its efficiency was also improved. Especially, the moisturecontent of dried food waste was lower than 5% which was satisfied SRF standard 10% at the temperature over 110oC.Compared the effect of mixing oil type, waste cooking oil was more effective than refined oil in viewpoint of dryingefficiency. However, there is no difference of drying efficiency between fresh and waste cooking oil.

Recently, the importance of food safety is increasing due to numerous junk food. Junk food means to violate the law in stage such as production, manufacture, distribution, and sale of food. Many crop plants are processing as foods including bread, noodle, and other foods for supporting nutrition to human. For example, rice is one of the most well-known food crops in the world, and processed rice is being mixed with other processed crops to health food. The object of this study is to detect amount of specific grains, i.e. rice from processed foods mixed with other cereals. This experiment was performed to the following two steps: 1) designed the specific primer sets based on chloroplast DNAs, 2) amplified products using real-time PCR. We designed eleven primer sets within chloroplast DNA of rice, and then the confirmation of primer efficiency was to amplified with rice genomic DNA using real-time PCR. In addition, these primer sets were applied in other crops such as wheat, maize, and adlay to confirm specificity to rice. The rice specific primer sets were determined by the number of amplification and the melting peak through real-time PCR. As a result, five primer sets were confirmed to uniqueness in the rice genome. In conclusion, the specific primer sets would be useful for identifying rice grain from the processed foods to eliminate junk foods and for contribution of food safety.

Genome sequencing researches for considerable numbers of crops and wild plants are being developed. Cytogenetic researches according to chromosome number and size are essential to confirm and comprehend ploidy level and genome size before genome sequencing project is actually conducted. Cytogenetic researches on six food crop plants were carried out by DAPI staining and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) method. Fagopyrum esculentum Moench showed 2n=2x=16, each chromosome length of 1.42㎛ to 1.77㎛, total chromosome length of 13.31㎛, and karyotypic formula of 2n=8m; Phaseolus angularis W.F. Wight, 2n=2x=22, 2.01㎛ to 3.84㎛, total 28.03㎛, 2n=9m+2sm, Perilla frutescens var. japonica Hara, 2n=2x=40, 1.73㎛ to 2.76㎛, total 44.36㎛, 2n=5m+13sm+2st. Chromosome sizes of the other three species such as, Panicum miliaceum L., 2n=2x=36, total chromosome length of 30.83㎛, Sesamum indicum L., 2n=2x=26, 27.39㎛, lpomoea batatas L., 2n=2x=30, total 33.51㎛ were too small for each chromosome type to be identified and analyzed. The result of FISH analysis using 5S and 45S rDNA probe showed species-specific chromosome locations in the genome. These preliminary analyses were carried out to decide which food crop to prioritize for genome sequencing. This work was supported by the “Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development (No.PJ009837), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

The objective of this study is to estimate the relative importance of food labelling on organic and country-of-origin of tofu. The relative importance of three Tofu attributes shows that the country-of-origin is the most important and an organic labelling and price are followed in order. The result is that if two attributes, an organic labelling and the country-of-origin are taken into account, organic soybeans produced in Korea gets the highest value and non-organic soybeans produced in Korea, organic soybeans produced in USA, and others are followed in order. For respondents who have children under 6 years or under 18 years, the importance of an organic labelling increased compared to those whose children do not fall into that age. The results of this study show that the country of origin, especially domestically produced products, is more importantly recognized than the organic labeling to consumers.

Even though consumers’ concern about food-safety certified or environment-friendly chicken meat becomes one of the main issues of food consumption in Korea, university students’ interest about food-safety certified or environment-friendly chicken meat was not often discussed. We realized that the cafeteria of university is one of the largest consumption points for the chicken meat of university students, and tried to analyze university students’ consumption of food-safety certified or environment-friendly chicken meat at the cafeterias of university. The object of this paper is to conduct survey analysis about the students' behavior for consumption of food-safety certified or environment-friendly chicken meat at the cafeterias of university and to measure WTP(Willingness-to-pay) for the food cooked with foodsafety certified or environment-friendly chicken meat. The results present that most of students show higher preference of environment-friendly chicken meat than food-safety certified chicken meat, and that they can pay 1,329.9 Korean won for food cooked with environment-friendly chicken meat.

Anaerobically treated food wastewater still contains high concentration of organic carbon and nitrogen. Consequently,subsequent treatments are needed to meet the effluent criteria of wastewater. Injection of treated food wastewater into awaste landfill body could be one alternative for its subsequent treatment. In this study, preliminary experiments wereconducted to inject treated food wastewater into waste landfill body. Firstly, Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) testwas conducted to evaluate the methane generation potential of the injected food wastewater. Secondly, anaerobicallytreated food wastewater showed clogging problem during the initial stage of laboratory scale lysimeter injectionexperiment. Accordingly, pretreatments were needed, and we experimented the change of viscosity of the wastewater afterchemical injection (1N acid or base solution) or aeration of wastewater. From the results, BMP for the treated foodwastewater showed 373.8mL CH4/g VS, which was 53% of untreated food wastewater’s. Practically feasible solution toreduce the viscosity of treated food wastewater was 1 day aeration before injection into the waste landfill body.

In this study, waste landfill site was used as a bioreactor landfill for the treatment of anaerobically digested foodwastewater, and a basic study on waste landfill injection of anaerobically digested food wastewater was conducted. To studythe effect of different operating condition on the quality of lysimeter leachate, 3 lysimeters were operated at differentcondition (i.e., Lys 1=no recirculation, Lys 2=leachate recirculation, Lys 3=leachate recirculation after one day aeration),and the results of leachate quality were as followings. pH Level of leachate became similar to the digested food wastewaterafter 63 days of operation(equivalent to the 11.2% of bed volume) and Cl- concentration of leachate was higher than injectedfood wastewater during whole 6 months of operation period. Leachate COD showed stable values after 70 days of operation,and reduction rate of COD concentration after 6 months was 86%, 89, and 90% for Lys 1, Lys 2, and Lys 3, respectively.The reduction rates of TKN concentration were 19, 28, and 65% for Lys 1, Lys 2, and Lys 3. Lys 3 showed the mosteffective TKN reduction. Leachate recirculation after one day aeration resulted effective reduction of cumulative COD andTKN mass, which were 61% and 40% respectively, compared to the no recirculation case.

This study is aimed to examine the mediated effects of consumer recognition in relationship of local food tour experience and intention of action in the revitalization of local food. Questionnaire survey target was women in 30s and 40s. The local food tour experience is independent variable, intention of action is dependent variable, and consumer recognition is analyzed as mediated variable. As a result, consumer recognition which is mediating variable has two subordinated variables. One is direct affect and the other is indirect affect. Between local food tour experience and intention of action, there was partial mediating effect. Thus, through tour experience, consumer can have positive recognition of freshness, safety, health, taste, price, job creation and relationship. That affects to the intention of action. Based on the results of the study, it is necessary to learn success case for marketing revitalization, and develop and operate experiencing tour education program to manage customer continuously.

In spite of the government's various efforts to reduce food waste, the food waste in Korea has increased about 3%every year, mainly due to the growing population, number of households, and income. Food waste occurs in the processesof production, transportation, distribution, storage and cooking of food ingredients. However, there has been little reliabledata about how households - a major food waste source - store and treat their food and how much food waste they produce.In this regard, we thought it was important to understand the exact amount and characteristics of food waste fromhouseholds in order to reduce the country's food waste, which is why we monitored kinds, storage periods, treatment,and waste of food consumed in 100 households in the Seoul metropolitan area. Households normally store their foodingredients in refrigerators - on average 33 kinds and 35kg of food are stored - and some of them stayed there for upto 3 years. Moreover, not a small portion of the food is thrown away nearly untouched, mostly because people tend topurchase too much food at one time or they don't know or miss their expiration dates. The amounts of food waste bytype were in the order of vegetable>side dish>frozen food>fruit>seasoning. Also, we suggest effective and realisticmeasures to reduce food waste and promote a more desirable food consumption culture.

The Purpose of this paper is to analysis on consumer’s purchasing behavior and intention of local food. To analysis consumer’s purchasing behavior, a series of homemaker surveys were conducted. The sample size of the survey is 416 respectively. As a survey result, consumer’s purchasing behavior shows that purchasing ratio of local food and buying place is various type. By decision tree model analysis showed that consumer’s purchasing intention is enough to establishing local food system in region. Therefore, strategies for regional consumption are needed expression of the place city and county of origin, diversification of purchasing item and buying area, and sustainable improvement for safety and trust on local food.

21세기는 글로벌 경쟁 환경이 변화함에 따라 지역문화의 새로운 창출과 지방자치정부의 재정자립을 위해 지역특화상품 개발이 요구되고 있다. 현대사회는 이름만 가지고는 그 지역의 특화상품을 알리기에는 협소하다. 그 지역의 혼과 맛이 담긴 패키지디자인 개발은 특화상품으로서 우수성을 홍보하고 특성을 쉽게 전달할 수 있으며, 문화 전도사 역할을 담당하기도 한다. 이에 본 연구는 전라북도를 중심으로 지역특화 농식품 패키지디자인 개발에 대한 컬러별, 로고타입별, 전통콘텐츠를 활용한 사례를 기준으로 전북지역 농식품 패키지디자인 현황을 분석해 보았다. 지역특화상품 패키지디자인 개발은 부가가치를 상승시키고 제품의 경쟁력을 높이는 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있다. 오늘날과 같은 치열한 경쟁 속에서 경쟁력 확보를 위한 농식품 특화상품의 효과적인 디자인 진단으로 상품의 품위를 높이고 시장경쟁력을 강화하여 지역민에 대한 디자인 개발의 중요성과 인식이 전환될 수 있도록 지속적인 홍보 및 효율적인 교육으로 관심을 유도하고 참여도를 높여 주민 소득창출 및 지역경제 발전에 기여함으로써 새로운 활력지역으로 거듭나도록 해야 할 것이다. 따라서 본 연구가 전라북도 농식품 패키지디자인의 문제점을 파악하는데 도움이 되고 지방화시대 지역특화상품 패키지디자인 개발을 통해 지역의 경제 발전과 시장경쟁력을 갖춘 바람직한 패키지 디자인의 방향성을 제시하고자 한다.

For the practical feasibility of lactic acid (LA) fermentation process, a continuous operation using mixed culture and the use of cheap and non-food raw materials are essential. In this study, a continuous LA fermentation of food waste was attempted using indigenous mixed culture. During the operation, temperature was gradually increased from 35℃ to 55℃, with showing the highest performance at 50℃. At 35-45℃, other organic acids such as acetic acid and butyric acid were also observed. At 50℃ and HRT 1.0 d, both LA production yield and its productivity were maximized to 1.8 mol LA/mol hexoseadded and 1.4 g LA/L/hr, respectively. A pyrosequencing result showed that Lactobacillus amylolyticus was the predominant species performing LA fermentation of food waste. The combined process of nanofiltration and water-splitting electrodialysis could recover highly purified LA from the fermentation broth by removing 95% of mineral ions and 77% of ammonium and glucose.

This is aim to use and recycle the wasted biogas from the dispose process of the food wasted facility in Dae-Gu. Furthermore, the virtuous biogas is to be supplied for the Industrial Complex as energy resource. It is to develop the system for Pre-treatment and High-efficiency of the wasted biogas that includes low concentration and impurities. The Pre-treatment is to remove Siloxan, Hydrogen sulfide, Carbon dioxide, Oxygen and etc. which might influence to end-users in negative way. The High-efficiency system is to remove moisture in Biogas and increase the purity for keeping the constant concentration Methane for useful resource with measuring the portion and density in real time. It shows that constant above 60% Methane gas is possibly to be supplied to end-users as a alternative energy resource rather than using LNG, LPG and etc. for their own boilers system. It is expected that there are Environmental, Economical and Social effects with establishing optimum network for the reuse of Biogas. Environmental positive effects are to reduce the Global Warming Potential, use fossil fuel and Green-house gases. Economically it will bring down the production cost of end-users by using the pre-treated biogas. Furthermore, the alternative energy resource is to be secured and New R&D Study might be applied with FuelCell Power Plant, Hydregen Station and Hydrogen Reforming in social effects.

Waste activated sludge (WAS) and food waste (FW) are available year round at low cost and have the potential to promote synergism in anaerobic digestion (AD). The goal of this study was to clarify the synergism in co-digestion of WAS and FW. A slight amount of FW at various ratios was added to WAS as an auxiliary substrate, and anaerobic batch tests were performed under mesophilic conditions. By adding FW, total CH₄ produced was increased, where most of them were come from WAS, clearly suggesting synergism. Also, lag period was shortened and CH₄ production rate was increased by FW addition. It was hypothesized that enhanced performance was owing to the facilitated hydrolysis of WAS by FW addition, which was revealed by the increased activities of hydrolytic α-amylase and protease.

Food waste, food leachate and livestock wastes from an usual farm and a farm using much disinfectant were mixed to incubate within anaerobic serum bottle for BMP test. The methane yield rate and lag phase were determined by the modified Gompertz model and the Logistic model. The maximum methane yield rates by the modified Gompertz model were 15.9 ~ 41.0 mL CH4/g VS and higher than by the Logistic model. The modified Gompertz model was more appropriate than the Logistic model to have higher determination coefficient R2. The methane fermentation of mix with sole livestock waste from the farm using much disinfectant had ninefold lag phase and 40% or lower maximum yield rate comparing with the mix with sole usual livestock waste. The methane yield rate from a tonne of mix was increased as the ratio of food waste and food leachate increased. The cumulative methane yield was in the proportion of 40 m3 to a tonne of food wastes. The results of BMP test were analyzed by a response surface methodology (RSM) and modelized to a binomial expression, which was verified by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and to be appropriate for this case.

This study was conducted to analyze the polyphenol contents and antioxidant activities of small-black-bean- Chungkukjang-added black food (SBCB) and soybean Chungkukjang (SC) extracts for the development of functional materials. The yields of the hot-water-and-ethanol SC extracts were higher than those of the hot-water-only SC extracts, which were higher than those of the ethanol-only SC extracts. The total phenol contents of the hot-water-and-ethanol SBCB extracts were higher than those of the other extracts. The EDA values of the hot-water-and-ethanol SBCB extracts were higher in the 0.625~5.0 mL/mL extract concentration than those of the other extracts, and those of the SC extracts were high in the 10 mg/mL extract concentration. The SOD-like activities of the hot-water- and ethanol-only SC extracts were higher than those of the other extracts. The nitrite scavenging ability of the ethanol-only SC extracts was higher at pH 1.2 than that of the hot-water-only SC extracts. The xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities of the hot-water- and ethanol-only SBCB extracts were higher in the 0.625 mL/mL extract concentration than those of the other extracts, and increased along with the extract concentration. The inhibitory activities of tyrosinase also increased along with the extract concentration, and the reducing power increased along with the extract concentration and was high in the hot-water-only SBCB and SC extracts.

Recent climate change has led to fluctuations in agricultural production, and as a result national food supply has become an important strategic factor in economic policy. As such, in this study, panel data was collected to analyze the effects of seven meteorological elements and using the Lagrange multipliers method, the fixed-effects model for the production of five types of food crop and the seven meteorological elements were analyzed. Results showed that the key factors effecting increases in production of rice grains were average temperature, average relative humidity and average ground surface temperature, while wheat and barley were found to have positive correlations with average temperature and average humidity. The implications of this study are as follow. First, it was confirmed that the meteorological elements have profound effects on the production of food crops. Second, when compared to existing studies, the study was not limited to one food crop but encompassed all five types, and went beyond other studies that were limited to temperature and rainfall to include various meterological elements.

Although antioxidant activities of Korean traditional fermented foods were reported by many researchers, study on antioxidant activity of microorganism originated from Korean traditional fermented foods was little. Therefore, we improved condition for antioxidant production by a bacterium isolated from home-made Chungkookjang. We selected a bacterial strain, which showed the highest antioxidative activity, from Chungkookjang and then named GJ. The selected GJ strain was identified as Bacillus methylotrophicus by alignment data of 16S rRNA gene nucleotide sequences. Improved medium compositions for DPPH radical scavenging activity were 0.25% sucrose, 1% peptone, 0.01% MgSO4·7H2O and initial pH 6.5, respectively. Optimal culture conditions were 30℃, 200 rpm and 4% inoculum volume, respectively. In improved conditions, DPPH radical scavenging activity of GJ reached to 91% in a short time. The strain GJ also possessed ACE inhibition and other antioxidative activities; ACE inhibition activity (49.4%), ABTS radical scavenging activity (99.8%), metal chelating activity (67.9%), SOD-like activity (36.5%) and reducing power (A700 = 5.982) were observed, respectively. Therefore, our results suggest that B. methylotrophicus GJ strain may be potential candidate for functional foods, cosmetic products for anti-aging and medicine for diseases caused by oxidative stress.

Current agriculture encounters several challenges including increase in human population, increased meat consumption from income growth, climate change, and demand for healthier foods. Together this puts a tremendous strain on limited natural resources and on an increasingly fragile ecosystem. Today, 55% percent of habitable land is used for agriculture. Two-thirds (66%) of all annual fresh water withdrawals are used for irrigation. Energy is another vital input for agriculture productivity and experts are predicting increasing global competition for supply sources. Monsanto Company uses biotechnology, plant breeding, and agronomic solution to meet the increased food demand. In June 2008, we issued a three-fold commitment (produce more, conserve more and improve farmer’s lives for agriculture to be sustainable) that we call our Commitment to Sustainable Yield. Here, we present Monsanto pipeline to fulfill our commitment for sustainable agriculture.