Book excerpt: Chromatography has been developed as a powerful and rapid technique for the separation of compounds with highly similar molecular characteristics, even from complicated matrices. Due to their excellent separation characteristics and Versatility, chromatographic methods have found growing acceptance and application in environmental protection for residue analysis in air, ground and surface waters, sewage, sludge, soil matrices, etc The book will be of interest to analytical chemists in legalisation and research and to analytical control specialists, as well as to researchers and students.