THERE IS AN EVER-INCREASING NEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAST AND SENSITIVE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR SCREENING OF FOOD COLORANTS BECAUSE OF THEIR ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS SUCH AS ALLERGY, THYROID TUMOURS, CHROMOSOMAL DAMAGE, URTICARIA AND HYPERACTIVITY. Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) SENSORS HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AS PROMISING NOVEL TOOLS FOR SELECTIVE AND SENSITIVE DETECTION OF FOOD COLORANTS. HOWEVER, OPTIMIZING OF THE SENSOR SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO ACHIEVE HIGH SENSITIVITY, LOWER DETECTION LIMIT, MORE CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL STABILITY AND LESS DETECTION TIME. IN THIS WORK AN ELECTRO-polymerIZED MIP SENSOR FOR SUNSET YELLOW (SY) DETECTION, AN IMPORTANT FOOD COLORANT, WAS FABRICATED AND EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS WERE OPTIMIZED USING ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS. THE VALUE OF THE FOOD COLORANT DETECTION SIGNAL WAS ABOUT 1500–FOLD HIGHER USING FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBE DEPOSITED ON GLASSY CARBON ELECTRODE AND CHEMICAL STABILITY OF THE MODIFIED ELECTRODE WAS INCREASED USING NAFION. IT WAS OBSERVED THAT A FAST POTENTIAL SCAN SPEED AND FEWER CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY (CV) CYCLES OF ELECTRO polymerIZATION CAUSED A ROUGH AND POORLY imprinted polymer. HENCE, OPTIMIZATION OF THE CV CYCLES NUMBER, AND POTENTIAL SCAN SPEED ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE imprinted MEMBRANE. MOREOVER THE IMMERSING TIME, BUFFER SOLUTION OF SYNTHESIS AND IMMERSING STEPS, CONVENIENT PH AND MONOMER/CROSS LINKER RATIO WERE OPTIMIZED. THE MENTIONED SENSOR WAS SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED TO DETERMINATION OF SY IN BEVERAGES, MEDICINES, CANDIES, JELLY POWDER, FRUIT DRINKS AND CHOCOLATES COLORFUL COVER, AND SATISFACTORY RESULTS WERE OBTAINED. THE PROPOSED SENSOR DEMONSTRATES HIGH SELECTIVITY, CHEMICAL STABILITY, ACCEPTABLE REPRODUCIBILITY, AND COULD BE EXTENDED TO RECOGNIZE OTHER FOOD ADDITIVES.