Objective To establish a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method of simultaneous detection of 11 kinds of artificial pigments including Tartrazine, New red, Amaranth, Carmine, Sunset yellow, Allura Red, Red 2G, Acid blue 9, Azorubine, Erythrosine and Acid orange Ⅱ, et. al. Methods The target compounds in food samples were extracted by ethanol ammonia and purified by WAX cardge. The extracts were determined by a high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector. Results The results showed that there were good linear rel...