Abstract:Instrumental analysis is the elementary course for the undergraduate students of food quality and food safety.In present time,there are several obvious limitations of the teaching for this course,such as the textbook is being obsolete and breaking away from the practice and research work,the methods of teaching is being unitary and lacking of training of comprehensive experiments.After analyzing and researching the limitations based on many years' teaching practice and also in accordance with the special requirements of this course for the major of food quality and food safety,this paper puts forward some effective methods and countermeasures for the course of instrumental analysis.