Abstract: A review of the progress of researches on the analysis of pyrethroid pesticides for their residual amounts in fruits and vegetables was presented, covering the years from 2001 to 2012, and relating mainly in 2 respects: (1) methods of pretreatment, including soild phase extraction, CO2 supercritical fluid extraction, accelerated solvent extraction, microwave assisted extraction and gel permeation chromatography; and (2) methods of determination, including HPLC, GC, GC-MS, LC-MS and immunoassay. A brief prospect on this field was also given (46 ref. cited).