“…Most of those HPLC methods involved in reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) (Lin, 2009;Sun et al, 2010;Tittlemier, 2010), and sometimes ion-exchange chromatography (HPIC) (China, 2008). And the recently developed methods related to hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) draw much attention (Andersen et al, 2008;Epstein, Randecker, Corrao, Keeton, & Cross, 1988;Heller & Nochetto, 2008;Muñiz-Valencia et al, 2008;Sugita, Ishiwata, Yoshihira, & Maekawa, 1990;Varelis & Jeskelis, 2008;Wang, Gu, Lu, & Xu, 2008;Wei, Wang, Zeng, Chen, & Liu, 2009;Wu and Hung et al, 2009;Yan et al, 2008). The strong hydrophilicity of melamine makes its insufficient retention in reversed-phase column, thus ion-pair reagents (such as, sodium octane sulfonate, sodium hexanesulfonate, sodium heptanesulfonate, heptafluorobutyric acid) are usually introduced to enhance its retention and facilitate its separation (Lin, 2009;Sun et al, 2010;Tittlemier, 2010).…”