Pursuing our interest in assessing chromatographic and electroanalytical methods for the determination of trace compounds
and elements in honey [21,31–33] and honey-based [10] products, we decided to carry out experimentalwork aimed at proposing and fully validating a direct RP-HPLCmethod capable of determining the most important furanic aldehydes and acids (i.e. HMF, 2-F, 3-F, 2-FA and 3-FA) in the same analytical run without any pre-treatment of the sample.