A review of literature published in 2011 on analytical methods for pesticides are presented here in six sections: extraction methods, chromatographic or mass spectrometric techniques, spectrophotometric techniques, fluorescence methods, biochemical assays and immunoassays, and review articles. Because many of the research studies in the cited publications utilized more than one analytical method, the different sections should not be thought of as being mutually exclusive. Extraction Techniques Successful extraction techniques are crucial in many applications to enable the proper analyses of pesticides. The extraction techniques can be broadly classified as solid-or liquid-phase extraction or dispersion, with much overlap and other sub-categories. One common extraction technique used for analyzing pesticide residues is QuEChERS. Caldas, Bolzan, et al. (2011) developed a new method for the determination of clomazone, fipronil, tebuconazole, propiconazole, and azoxystrobin in samples of rice paddy soil, where pesticides from soil samples were extracted using a modified QuEChERS method using acidified acetonitrile followed by the addition of MgSO 4 and NaCl prior to the final determination by LC atmospheric chemical pressure ionization tandem MS. Recoveries of the spiked samples ranged between 70.3 and 120%, and the limits of quantification were between 10 and 50 µg/kg. Georgakopoulos et al. (2011) tested three lowfat baby food matrices that were fortified with 0.01-0.2 mg/kg of phorate, diazinon, chlorpyrifos and methidathion using a QuEChERS-like method and varying quantities of octadecyl (C(18)) sorbent. In meals containing vegetables (1.9% fat) and lamb (3.0% fat), 180-210 mg C(18) gave recoveries from 67.0% to 105.0% , and yogurt (4.5% fat) required 200-230 mg C(18) for similar recoveries. The QuEChERS method of sample preparation was used to analyze for buprofezin, carbofuran, endosulfan-alpha, endosulfan-beta, endosulfan sulfate, and monocrotophos in thirty-three tomato samples (Andrade et al., 2011). Samples were extracted with acetonitrile, followed by liquid-liquid partition with addition of MgSO 4 and NaCl then dSPE using primary secondary amine sorbent, resulting in recoveries ranging from 71 to 111%. Park, Choi, et al. (2011) developed a multiresidue method using QuEChERS extraction to analyze for 41 pesticide residues in cooked potatoes, radishes, and rice. The recoveries ranged between 68.6 and 130.0% for the majority of the tested pesticides, and the LODs and LOQs ranged between 0.004 and 0.3µg/kg and 0.0125 and 1.0 µg/kg, respectively. Xu, Wu, et al. (2011) validated the use of QuEChERS for the extraction of 15 organochlorine pesticides in completely different matrices of traditional