CHUNGJU, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A quarantine drone demonstration was held on Wednesday at a pig farm located in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province. This trial performance showed how drones can be used to control disease and pests in the livestock industry, similar to current practices in the agricultural sector. Each drone can spray up [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Environment Minister Yoon Seong-kyu offered an apology Wednesday over legal loopholes in controlling toxic humidifier sterilizers that are believed to have caused the deaths of more than 100 people. The humidifier disinfectant case, one of the worst scandals involving a consumer product using chemicals, came to light after four pregnant [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwre) – Years of exposure to humidifier sterilizers increased the risk for severe lung damage in users by 116 times more than in those not exposed to the chemicals, a state health agency said Sunday. In August 2011, when the government acknowledged a connection between lung problems and the chemicals used [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government announced that it will re-examine potential health damages to the respiratory system and other organs from humidifier disinfectants. The Ministry of Environment’s Humidifier Disinfectant Investigations Committee revealed that it will study the possibility of rhinitis, bronchitis, and other potential non-pulmonary damages resulting from humidifier disinfectants, and [...]