Is it possible to analyze colistin sulfate in a pharmaceutical drug by HPLC with UV detection?

01 January 2018 0 849 Report

Colistin has weak chromopheres, therefore it is usually analyzed by microbilolgy methods and not by HPLC.

is it possible to analyze it by HPLC with PDA detector.

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