“…Although sudan I-IV and carothenoids have different chemical structures other properties such as polarity, solubility and absorption spectra are very similar, making difficult the determination of sudans by HPLC in food matrices, so it is always necessary to carry out a laborious sample pretreatment steps to eliminate interferences. Different analytical methods have been reported in the literature for the determination of sudans (Rebane, Leito, Yurchenko, & Herodes, 2010), such as electrochemical (Chailapakul, Wonsawat, Siangproh, Grudpan, Zhao, & Zhu, 2008), capillary electrophoresis (Mejia, Ding, Mora, & Garcia, 2007), chemiluminescence (Chang et al, 2011) and immunoassays (Ju, Tang, Fan, & Chen, 2008), being liquid chromatography-diode array detection (LC-DAD) (Cornet, Govaert, Moens, Loco, & Degroodt, 2006;Long et al, 2011;Qi, Zeng, Wen, Liang, & Zhang, 2011;Uematsu, Ogimoto, Kabashima, Suzuki, & Ito, 2007;Yan, Wang, Qiao, & Yang, 2011) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) (Botek, Poutska, & Hajslová, 2007;Ferrer, Fernández-Alba, & Ferrer, 2007;Pardo, Yusá, León, & Pastor, 2009;Tateo & Bononi, 2004;Ma, Luo, Chen, Su, & Yao, 2006;Murty, Sridhara Chary, Prabhakar, Prasada Raju, & Vairamani, 2009) the preferred methods. Depending of the complexity of matrix, some pretreatment steps such as liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) (Long et al, 2011;Zacharis, Kika, Tzanavaras, Rigas, & Kyranas, 2011), solid phase extraction (SPE) (Qi et al, 2011;Liu, Hei, He, & Li, 2011;Zhao, Zhao, Liu, & Zhang, 2010;Zheng, Wu, Feng, & Huang, 2011) or even MIP-SPE (Puoci, Garreffa, Iemma, Muzzalupo, Spizzirri, & Puoci, 2005;Baggiani et al, 2009) are necessary.…”