There were considerable advantages in testing gentamicin sulfate on composition and impurities with HPLC-pulse electrochem. detector (PED) method.Besides direct injection, high sensitivity and good resolution, derivation reactions would be avoided.Within the testing range in this experiment, a good linearity was shown along with correlation coefficient exceeding 0.99.In addition, relative standard deviations of both repeatability and robustness in composition test were less than 2%, while that in impurities test was less than 10%, and the detection limit of composition C2a was as low as 0.002 mg/mL.As could be seen from the testing results, for testing gentamicin sulfate on composition and impurities, HPLC-PED anal. method was convenient and accurate.