Abstract:

Nowadays, the safety of milk and related food products has become one of the health concerns of the country and even the world due to the melamine milk powder incident that broke out in China in 2008. As a consequence, the development of analytical techniques for hazardous and toxic substances in milk and related food products is becoming one of the hot research interests. In order to provide a useful guidance for effectively solving the antibiotic residue problems in milk and related food products, this paper reviews the applications of chromatographic (gas, liquid) and chromatographic-mass spectrometric techniques to the determination of antibiotic residues in milk and related food products according to antibiotic kind.

Key words: chromatography, mass spectrometry, milk, antibiotic