“…These methods involve ultraviolet assay (Baig et al, 2001;Erk, 2004), liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry Pereira et al, 2000;Alnouti et al, 2005;Mudigonda et al, 2008), micellar capillary electrophoresis and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV detection (Molema et al, 1992;Schrive and Plasse, 1994;Aymard et al, 2000;Tan and Boudinot, 2000;Clark et al, 2001;Marchei et al, 2002;Ramachandran et al, 2006;Tarinas et al, 2007;Lewis et al, 2007;Lefebvre et al, 2007). Most of the methods using HPLC with UV detection methods described until now are relatively timeconsuming or they use expensive instrumentation not readily accessible to many groups.…”