“…2-Thiouracil, its derivatives and methimazole are thyreostatic drugs used in the treatment of hyperthyroidism 1 , and also to increase the growth rate in animals for human consumption with harmful consequences for human health. These drugs have been determined in pharmaceuticals by titrimetry, 2,3 spectrophotometry, [4][5][6][7] nuclear magnetic resonance, 8 electroanalytical methods [9][10][11] and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), 12 and in biological samples including flour, fluids and tissues by a spectrophotometric kinetic procedure, 7 thin-layer chromatography, 13,14 gas chromatography, 15,16 HPLC 12,17 and radioimmunoassay. 18 Capillary zone electrophoresis has been used to determine thyreostatics in human, bovine and horse urine.…”