“…From the optical techniques UV (Fernandez-Maestre, Hill, 2009), FT-infrared (Ito et al, 2008), FT-Raman (Koleva et al, 2008) and NMR (Armenta et al, 2005) spectrometry were usually employed for caffeine determination. The separation methods such as capillary electrophoresis (Zhao, Lunte, 1997), thinlayer chromatography (Sullivan, Sherma, 2005), gas chromatography (Jafari et al, 2011) and liquid chromatography (Tzanavaras, Themelis, 2007) were used for the analysis of mixtures containing caffeine and other drugs or metabolites. However, these techniques are mostly very expensive and long time is required for some procedures as derivatization, extraction and purifi cation (Goyal et al, 2011) therefore, the development of reliable, low-cost, rapid, simple and accurate method for caffeine determination in various foodstuffs, pharmaceutical formulations and biological fl uids is needed.…”