“…Due to the large number of commercially available vitamin preparations and their widespread use, the quality control of these preparations is extremely important, especially because of the risk of toxicity from excessive intake of vitamins A and D. 3 HPLC methods, coupled with different detection techniques: UV, [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] FLD, 6 ECD, 13 and MS 5,14 offer the best approach to accurate content determination of the main FSVs in foods, pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements. The published HPLC-UV methods for quality control of preparations containing FSVs are quite limited in terms of separation and simultaneous determination of FSVs, 4,5,7,8,11 often have run time longer than 15 min [4][5][6]9,12 and generally require complicated and time-consuming sample preparation. 11,12,15,16 Further on, to our knowledge none of the published HPLC methods offer simultaneous determination of FSVs and also β-carotene and coenzyme Q10, which are often found along in medicines and nutritional supplements.…”