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B.A. Chemistry, Bowling Green State University
Terry Spittler joined Cornell University in 1977 as Chief Chemist and Northeast Regional Laboratory Coordinator of the IR-4 Minor Use Pesticide Registration Program. Currently the NE Director of IR-4, Spittler has also served in various positions with the Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society, as an associate referee with AOAC International, and with the EPA Grants Review Panel. He is also an active consultant in the areas of pesticide misapplication, contamination and the design and operation of analytical facilities and programs.
Research Interests
Recent research activity centered on the development of GC/MSD analytical methods for residues of insect pheromones in food commodities, plus the enzymeimmuno assay of pesticides in both food and environmental samples. Other developments have included multi-residue techniques for a variety of materials and HPLC methodology for selected chemicals.
Representative Publications
Effect of Regulation of Pheromones as Chemical Pesticides on Their Viability in Insect Control, T. D. Spittler, in Natural and Engineered Pest Management Agents, P. A. Hedin, J. J. Menn and R. M. Hollingworth, Eds. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. No. 551:509(1993).
Controlling Lepidopteran Pests in Cabbage by Inducing Leaf Glossiness with S-ethyldipropylthiocarbamate Herbicide, S. D. Eigenbrode, A. M. Shelton, W. C. Kain, H. C. Leichtweis and T. D. Spittler. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 69:41-50 (1993).
Exposure, Fate and Potential Residues in Food of Applied Lepidopteran Pheromones, Insect Behaviour-Modifying Chemicals: Applications and Regulation, T. D. Spittler, H. C. Leichtweis and P. Kirsch. Monograph No. 51. R. L. Ridgway, M. N. Inscoe and H. Arn, Eds. British Crop Protection Council. 93-108 (1992).
Temperature and Light Effects on Ethyl Carbamate Formation in Wine During Storage, Tegmo-Larsson, I.-M. and T. D. Spittler. J. Food Sci. 55. 1166-1169 (1990).
Effect of Malolactic Fermentation on Ethyl Carbamate Formation in Chardonnay Wine, I.-M. Tegmo-Larsson, T. D. Spittler and S. B. Rodriguez. Am. J. Enol. Vitic., 40(2):106 (1989).
Biorational Control of Crop Pests by Mating Disruptions: Residue Analyses of Z-9-Dodecen-1-yl Acetate and Z-11-Tetradecen-1-yl Acetate in Grapes, T. D. Spittler, H. C. Leichtweis and T. J. Dennehy, in “Biotechnology for Crop Protection”, P. A. Hedin, J. J. Menn and R. M. Hollingworth, Eds. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. No. 379:430 (1988).
"Analysis of Dicamba from Water Using Solid-Phase Extraction and Ion-Pair High Performance Liquid Chromatography", M. Arjmand, T. D. Spittler and R. O. Mumma, J. Agric. Food Chem., 36:492(1988).
M.S. Biochemistry, SUNY at Buffalo
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, SUNY at Albany