As a mature technology, gas chromatography has been widely used in analysis of composition and content of material, and it is also promising for analysis of food nutrition components and quality and security as it is easy, fast to use. The application of gas chromatography and its hyphenated technology in nutrition ingredient analysis, flavor compound, freshness, pesticide and veterinary residue, and toxic chemical from environment and process of meat and meat products are reviewed, and then prospected its perspective applications in meat detection.