본 연구는 2003년 8월에 통영 바다목장해역 5개 정점 표층수에서 페놀류, 9개의 폴리클로리네이티드비페닐(PCB) 및 유기주석화합물(TBT)의 농도와 10개 정점에서 수은 및 크롬(VI), 카드뮴, 납의 중금속 농도를 해양 환경공정시험방법(해양수산부 2002) 또는 이 방법과 내분비계 장애물질의 측정 분석방법(국립환경연구원 1999)을 일부 변경하여 분석하였다. 환경정책기본법시행령(대통령령 제18108호: 별표 1, 3. 수질, 라. 해역)에 의하면

This study examined the consumers' awareness and information need toward the irradiated foods and environmental hormones. The data were collected from 350 adults living in Daegu and Busan by the self-administered questionnaire. Frequencies and chi-square tests were conducted by SPSS. The results of the survey were as follows: (1) consumers' awareness regarding the irradiated foods and environmental hormones were low, while consumers' concerns for them were high, (2) the orders of the information needs for the irradiated foods are safety of irradiated foods, dose permitted for food irradiation, benefits of irradiated foods, kinds of permitted irradiated foods, and legislations of food irradiation, and (3) the orders of the information needs for the environmental hormones are harmfulness of environmental hormones, standards for contamination by environmental hormones, materials releasing environmental hormones, methods to prevent environmental hormones, and kinds of environmental hormones.