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Analysis of selected contemporary threats to gas infrastructure

Pilarski Grzegorz, Michalik Jacek, Wyszyński Marcin

Wiedza Obronna

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2023

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nr 2

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Nowadays, companies are increasingly using a risk-based approach to achieve their business goals. A key element of this approach is the identification of threats that may materialize and affect the functioning of the company. Following the example of the gas sector, with the gas infrastructure as the subject of research, the authors presented selected contemporary gas network threats that may occur within the mentioned sector.

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European inter-comparison studies as a tool for perfecting irradiated food detection methods

Guzik Grzegorz Piotr, Michalik Jacek

Nukleonika

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2021

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Vol. 66, No. 3

91--97

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In this paper, we present the results of inter-comparison studies on identification of irradiated food carried out by the leading European laboratories from 1991 to 2018. In 1990s, the Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine in Germany played the leading role in the organization of the inter-laboratory tests on this subject. At the beginning of the present century, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition and Food National Spanish Centre took over this role. In total, 47 international tests were carried out in which nearly 500 samples of alimentary products were analysed in 37 laboratories from 14 European countries. The tests were aimed at proving the reliability of analytical methods – thermoluminescence (TL), photostimulated luminescence (PSL), and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy – for identification of specific irradiated food products and to control the analytical skills and experience of participating laboratories. The results made possible a discussion on why some irradiated food samples are more difficult for identification. In general, the tests showed that TL measurements of products such as herbs, nuts, peppers, and raisins, and EPR studies of fish and chicken bones, fresh strawberries, and dried fruits could be used as reliable control methods. The challenge that control laboratories are facing now, is related to the identifi cation of complex food products such as diet supplements or biopharmaceuticals, in which only some additives are irradiated.

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Study on irradiated D-mannose isolated from cranberry

Guzik Grzegorz P., Stachowicz Wacław, Michalik Jacek

Nukleonika

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2019

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Vol. 64, No. 4

139--143

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The stable EPR signal produced by ionizing radiation in crystalline D-mannose (C6H12O6) and separated from cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccus) was studied. The isothermal heating of irradiated sample at 95°C for 10 minutes (melting point of D-mannose is 132°C) resulted in the modifi cation and simplifi cation of the EPR signal involved. The isotropic quartet has been recognized in the EPR signal of heat-treated sample. Molecular structure of the isotropic quartet identifi ed in the complex EPR signal of D-mannose crystallite is proposed.