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A simple method is described for the determinatio n of α-tocopherol in fish liver by high performance liquid chromatography. This method does not involve saponification or thin layer chromatography and thus avoids the destruction of α-tocopherol during sample preparation. The homogenized liver sample is extracted twice with dioxane–isooctane (20+80, v/v), and the combined extracts are dried under vacuum. The residue is extracted 3 times with acetonitrile from which α-tocopherol is then extracted with isooctane. The residue from the dried isooctane solution is dissolved in methanol–water (90+10, v/v) which is injected directly onto a micro Bondapak C18 high performance liquid chromatograph. The detection response to α-tocopherol at 280 nm was measured by peak height which was linear from 1 to 10 μg/25 μL injection. The coefficients of variation for retention time and peak height for 5 replicate analyses of the standard during 2 weeks were 1.4 and 2.4%, respectively. Recovery of α-tocopherol added to the sample before homogenization was 80–92% with a mean of 86.2% and a coefficient of variation of 4.9%. The minimum amount of sample and the concentration of α-tocopherol that can be accurately determined by the method are 0.5 g liver and 1 μg α-tocopherol/g liver, respectively.