Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)는 PCR 보다 빠르고 간편한 새로운 분자 검출 방법이다. 본 연구 에서는 식품에서 오염된 Bacillus cereus 그룹 중 식중독 을 유발할 수 있는 bceT 유전자를 가진 B. cereus와 B. thuringiensis를 신속하게 검출하기 위한 LAMP 방법을 개 발하고 평가하였다. LAMP 방법은 외부 프라이머와 내부 프라이머를 포함한 4개의 프라이머를 사용하기 때문에 다 른 검사 방법보다 특이성이 높다. 시험결과, LAMP의 특 이도는 100%였으며, 검출한계는 10(CFU/반응)이었다. 이 분석은 다양한 식품에서 인위적으로 접종하여 장독소 유 전자 함유 B. cereus 그룹을 분석하는 데 사용하였다. 일 반가공식품 뿐아니라 즉석조리식품 중 전투식량, 냉동볶 음밥 등 포함한 20개의 모든 식품에서 적용하여 검출하였다. 결론적으로, 장독소 유전자 함유 B. cereus 와 B. thuringiensis 특이적 LAMP는 소상공인 제조업체뿐만 아 니라 식품 관련 기관 등에서도 진단방법으로 유용하게 사 용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

In the current study, 109 commercial nut samples were collected from different Korean markets and analyzed for the contamination of 5 different mycotoxins (aflatoxin, ochratoxin A, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, and T-2 toxin) using ELISA kits. The results revealed that the most frequently detected mycotoxin was zearalenone (n=36, 33%), followed by aflatoxin (n=31, 28.4%) and ochratoxin A (n=30, 27.5%). Deoxynivalenol and T-2 toxin were also detected in 22 (20.3%) samples, respectively. Among 109 nut samples, 33 samples (30.3%) were contaminated only with one kind of mycotoxin, whereas 43 samples had at least 2 kinds of mycotoxins. Two samples were contaminated with as many as 4 different mycotoxins, and they were both walnuts. Although the monitoring results revealed the amount of aflatoxin contamination was under the safety criteria, there is no current safety guideline for other kinds of mycotoxins or multiple contaminations in Korea. Therefore, further studies should be performed to reveal the distribution of mycotoxin in different foods and propose appropriate safety guidelines for Korean markets.

Recently there has been an increasing amount of foreign livestock products distributed in the domestic market due to the market opening. Some vicious dealers sell the foreign beef in the trade name of the native beef during the final distribution step to arouse the social criticism frequently. In this report, we investigated a method to distinguish the native beef from the foreign one scientifically using the PCR-RAPD, a recent gene technique. Hygienical safety was also examined using a microbiological test for toxicity of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the food poisoning bacteria. The conditions of DNA amplification for the PCR analysis were 1 × Taq polymerise buffer, 1.5 mM MgCl₂, 50 uM dNTP, 100 ng primers, 2.5 unit Taq polymerise and 5-20 ng template DNA, with the final volume of 50 Etl. The size of the amplified product was detected mostly in the range of 0.5-2.0 kbp. The size of DNA, gene marking factor, which could be a criterion distinguishing the native beef from the foreign one, appeared approximately 1.2 kbp. The native beef was distinguished from the foreign beef with more than 90% of confidence by the gene marking factor. This method was expected to be useful in the breed discrimination between the native beef and the foreign one. The hygienical test results showed that, fortunately, neither Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes which form a principal cause of the food poisoning nor Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli : EHEC which have provoked a recent social disturbance, were detected at all.