“…Nowadays, the food safety administration and research towards commercial dairy products is primarily concentrated on the residues detection of microbial contaminants (Jin et al, 2013), heavy metal (Ping, Wang, Wu, & Ying, 2014), pesticide (Shaker & Elsharkawy, 2015) or antibiotics (Romero, Beltr an, P erez-Baena, Rodríguez, & Molina, 2014), and little is on the milk of steroid hormone (Sciascia, Pacheco, & McCoard, 2013;Zheng, Zou, Li, & Machesky, 2013). Classical analytical methods for the determination of E2 in powdered milk were mainly gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCeMS) (Chen et al, 2014), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Shi et al, 2011), and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry LCeMS (Pape-Zambito, Roberts, & Kensinger, 2010;Zhao, Lin, Li, & Ying, 2006).…”