Abstract: Several phthalate plasticizers detection methods which applied widely, such as gas chromatography (GC) , gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) , high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) , liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) , near infrared spectroscopic (NIR) , immunological analysis (IA) were summarized. Characteristics and application conditions for each method were compared, and their trend of development were also prospected, expecting to provide several basis for phthalate plasticizers analysis.