“…Compared with GC, HPLC can provide several advantages: (1) HPLC is the method that allows the nonvolatile thermally labile compounds to be separated with mild operating conditions; (2) detectors used in HPLC are nondestructive for the analytes, which makes it possible to collect the fraction for further investigation; (3) HPLC method allows FA to be converted to a large number of different derivatives. In addition, with the availability of various solvents, column packing materials and strong ultraviolet-absorbing or fluorescent tagging probes, a highly selective and sensitive HPLC analysis is possible (Perret et al, 2004;Puttmann, Krug, Von Ochsenstein, & Kattermann, 1993;Shukla, 1988). Commonly, chemical derivatization with fluorescence detection has been widely adopted in order to reduce detection limits.…”