The total aflatoxins(TAFs) in food was widespread, serious and harmful to the food industry concern and a single aflatoxin detection had been unable to meet the needs of the food industry. The research progress, application situation, technical advantages and defects of detection methods for TAFs in food currently used such as bioassay(BA), physicochemical analysis(PCA) and immunoassay(IA) were briefly reviewed in this paper, in order to provide reference and ideas for TAFs in food detection method using options and development.