“…Several methods have been reported for the determination of PPA in different dosage forms including tablets (Das Gupta and Heble, 1984;Ferreyra and Ortiz, 2001;Swanepoel et al, 1996;Rind et al, 2001), hard capsules (Swanepoel et al, 1996) and syrup (Swanepoel et al, 1996;Vasudevan et al, 2001). In these methods, the separation of PPA and other studied ingredients was achieved by reversed-phase HPLC with UV detection (Das Gupta and Heble, 1984;Ferreyra and Ortiz, 2001), UV-diode array detector (Vasudevan et al, 2001) and with fluorescence detection after precolumn derivatization with o-pthalaldehyde (Swanepoel et al, 1996) or 4-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (Rind et al, 2001).…”