A simple, sensitive, and accurate Ultraviolet Spectrophotometric method has been developed and
validated for the determination of Benzene in Food Grade Hexane. Benzene in spectroscopic grade
Hexane shows vibrational fine structure having four well resolved peaks. In the wavelength range
240–270 nm, peak at 255 nm is considered for the method development. Beer’s law was obeyed in the
concentration range of 0.6–10.0 lL L1, with correlation coefficient, 0.9999, detection limit 0.2 lL L1
and quantitation limit 0.6 lL L1 are established. Percentage recovery studies showed that the method
was not affected by the presence of other solvents having the similar boiling range with Hexane. The
method was validated by determining its accuracy and precision which proves suitability of the developed
method for the routine determination of Benzene in Food Grade Hexane. The proposed method
has been applied successfully for the analysis of the Food Grade Hexane.