On-line sorption-based systems for determination of cadmium with atomic spectrometry detectors

Determination of cadmium is often required in various environmental, biological and food samples as it is recognized worldwide as a toxic metal. However, these analysis with atomic spectrometry detectors are often difficult due to relatively low content of cadmium and complex matrices. Several preconcentration/separation procedures to determine cadmium have been devised, among them the methods based on sorbent extraction are the most popular. They can be easily implemented and controlled in flow injection (FI) or sequential injection (SI) systems to perform appropriate sample pretreatment. This work reviews the papers, published from 1990, concerning procedures based on sorption principles for on-line determination of cadmium. They were compared using experimental enhancement factor (EF) and concentration efficiency (CE) values.