“…Although this type of method is usually sensitive and can successfully resolve the problem of detection of spectinomycin, it has several inherent problems that have limited its application, for example, the complexity of derivatization reactions and possible formation of by-products or degradation products during the derivatization procedure [2]. Other non-derivatizing methods, including those with electrochemical detection (ED) and refractive index (RI) detection [7,8], and a pulsed electrochemical detector (PED) [9,10], have also been evaluated for analysis of AG. More recently, ELSD [2,11,12] and the highly sensitive MS [11][12][13] method have been used for determination of spectinomycin and its impurities.…”