“…In Table 5, the figures of merit of the proposed method and other selected on-line column preconcentration methods (Anthemidis et al 2011;Chamjangali, Farooji, and Bahramian 2010;Shabani, Dadfarnia, and Dehghani 2009;Anthemidis and Karapatouchas 2008;Liang and Han 2006;Lemos and Baliza 2005;Wang et al 2004) coupled with FAAS for cadmium determination are summarized for comparative purposes. As can be seen, the proposed method is comparable (Chamjangali et al 2010) or better (Anthemidis and Karapatouchas 2008;Liang and Han 2006) than selected similar procedures in terms of enrichment factor and detection limit. Due to good analytical performance characteristics such as sensitivity, precision, and high tolerance to interferences from the matrix, the developed method is considered to be a simple, accurate, and economical approach for monitoring trace level concentrations of trace metal analysis.…”