The group of tetracycline derivatives includes compounds with the condensed tetracyclic system, which are characterized by the common antimicrobial mechanism of action. The wide use of antibiotics of this group in medicine and veterinary medicine and their high toxicity in high concentrations cause the necessity of the permanent monitoring of their concentration in biological fluids of the human body (blood, plasma, and urine) and in food (poultry, milk, and eggs). An important topic is the study of the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in the human body.Chromatography is most frequently used for determining tetracyclines. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV detection was used for the determination of the above antibiotics in blood [1, 2], milk [3,4], meat, and eggs [5]. Silica gel was used as the stationary phase [1, 2], and toxic methanol was used as the mobile phase [1,2,5]. A disadvantage of the method is the long time of the separation of components (15-25 min). HPLC in combination with mass spectrometry and the internal standard (demeclocycline) was used for the determination of residual concentrations of tetracyclines in food [7-9]. The detection limits were 1 ng for oxytetracycline and 4 ng for chlortetracycline. The high cost of instrumentation and the toxicity of the mobile phase components restrict the use of HPLC in the analytical practice.Spectrophotometry is primarily used in the analysis of ready medicinals of rather simple composition [10,11]. Thus, the photometric determination of individual components of a mixture of tetracycline (1000 mg) and rifampicin (500 mg) with an error below 5% was reported [12].A biosensor was proposed for the determination of tetracycline in raw milk [13]. The detection limits of tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline, doxycycline, and methacycline are from 2 to 35 ng/mL. The main disadvantage of this sensor is the long response time and the high cost of the enzyme (bacterial luciferase) that is used in the sensor.One promising method for determining tetracycline is the fluorimetric method based on the formation of rare-earth metal chelates and the sensitized fluorescence generation. The sensitivity of determination is improved in the presence of the second ligand, e.g., ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [14][15][16]]. An addition of cationic surfactants, e.g., cetyltrimethylammonium chloride additionally decreases the detection limit of tetracycline. The method was used for the determination of tetracycline in calf serum [16].Another version of the fluorimetric method is the determination of tetracycline as the europium chelate in the presence of trioctylphosphine oxide at the watertetrachloromethane phase boundary in milk and serum with a detection limit of 2 × 10 -9 M [17]. The main disadvantages of the procedure are the use of a toxic solvent and laborious operations with the flotation extract.Previously, we demonstrated that the sensitized fluorescence intensity of thenoyltrifluoroacetone chelates of europium(III) can be increased in micell...