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Southwest Region, Kansas City District
Total Diet and Pesticide Research Center

11630 W. 80th Street
Lenexa, KS  66214-3340

Background Mission Facilities/ Resources Areas of Expertise Research Projects Staff

Research Projects: FY 1998

Current Research
Method Development

Glyphosate Herbicide
Ron Luchtefeld
- Contact Info Optimize an extraction procedure and a solid phase extraction cleanup for HPLC determination of glyphosate and its metabolite

Ion Trap GC MS/MS of Pesticide Residues in Fatty Foods
Marvin Hopper
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Paul Smith
- Contact Info Assess the viability of using GC-CID-MS/MS for confirmation and quantitation of pesticide residues at the ppb level in the fatty food items of the Total Diet Study

Automated Determination of Benzimidazole Fungicides
Bob Levine
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Ron Luchtefeld
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Marvin Hopper
- Contact Info Complete intralab validation of the automated solid phase extraction cleanup and HPLC determination of benomyl and thiabendazole

Automated Determination of Carbamate Pesticides
Ron Luchtefeld
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Bob Levine
- Contact Info Investigate literature procedure for solid phase extraction cleanup of carbamates and develop automated method to replace the liquid-liquid partitioning cleanup

Supercritical Fluids: Extraction and Cleanup of Pesticide Residues in Fats
Marvin Hopper
- Contact Info Develop automated supercritical fluid extraction and in-line C1 silica based column cleanup procedure to replace GPC extraction for fatty food items in the Total Diet Study

Subcritical Water: Pesticides and Fungicides in Non-fat Foods
Tina Pawlowski

Phone: 313-226-6260 ext 163
1560 E Jefferson;  Detroit, MI  48207
Internet E-Mail: tpawlow1@ora.fda.gov
Ron Luchtefeld
- Contact Info Investigate the feasibility of extracting polar and ionizable pesticide residues from non-fat Total Diet Study items using subcritical water as the extractant.


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