The well-known methods for the determination of serum iron, which are based on colour reactions with bathophenanthroline disulfonate, Ferrozine® or Chromazurol B, require — even on a microscale — sample amounts between 0.1 and 1.0 nil of serum (1,2,3). These sample volumes are too large for paediatric purposes. Reduction of sample size is possible in flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry us...

Mercury levels in canned tuna ®sh were determined by cold vapour atomic absorption spectrophotometry while cadmium and lead levels were determined by ̄ame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The metal contents in the samples, expressed in mg gÿ1 wet weight, varied from 0.20 to 0.66 with an average value of 0.29 for mercury, from 0.09 to 0.32 with an average value of 0.18 for cadmium and from 0...