The invention relates to a screening method for 43 artificial synthetic pigments in an aquatic product. The method comprises the following steps: screening by virtue of quadrupole tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometry of liquid chromatogram; calling an established mass spectrometry screening database to automatically scan and retrieve in a molecular matching mode; through a C18 analytic column, carrying out gradient elution by taking an acetonitrile solution containing 0.1% of formic acid in a 5mmol/L ammonium acetate aqueous solution as a moving phase, wherein the flow rate is 0.3ml/minute; and detecting under a negative ion mode by using an electrospray ionization source, extracting a suspicious sample, purifying the sample by virtue of a matrix dispersion method, carrying out liquid chromatographic separation, quantitatively determining by virtue of an external standard method, and verifying. The screening method has the advantages that the detection method is simple and quick to operate and high in sensitivity. By adopting the matrix dispersion method to purify the sample, the interference of matrix components is effectively reduced. Misjudgment events such as false positive events are greatly reduced by virtue of the qualitative function of the quadrupole tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometry, so that the monitoring ability of the detection mechanism on the risk of the aquatic product is extremely enhanced.