The Importance of Monitoring Cortisol in the Agri-Food Sector—A Systematic Review
Cortisol monitoring in the agri-food sector is considered a valuable tool due to its direct correlation with growth, reproduction, the immune system, and overall animal welfare. Strategies to monitor this stress hormone and its correlation to food quality and security have been studied in fish farmi...
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| description | Cortisol monitoring in the agri-food sector is considered a valuable tool due to its direct correlation with growth, reproduction, the immune system, and overall animal welfare. Strategies to monitor this stress hormone and its correlation to food quality and security have been studied in fish farming and the livestock industry. This review discusses studies on monitoring cortisol in the food industry for the first time. The impact of cortisol on animal production, quality, and the security of food products, and the analytical procedures commonly implemented for sample pre-concentration and quantification by liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, are reviewed and discussed according to the results published in the period 2012–2022. Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the leading agri-food sector, where cortisol’s impact and usefulness are better known than in livestock. The determination of cortisol in fish not only allows for an increase in the production rate, but also the ability to monitor the water quality, enhancing the sustainable development of this industry. In cattle, further studies are needed since it has mainly been used to detect the administration of illicit substances. Current analytical control and monitoring techniques are expensive and often depend on invasive sampling, not allowing fast or real-time monitoring. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c09d2cac0e88488cb1c1f60950d2187b2023-11-18T11:34:23ZengMDPI AGMetabolites2218-19892023-05-0113669210.3390/metabo13060692The Importance of Monitoring Cortisol in the Agri-Food Sector—A Systematic ReviewDayana Aguiar0Carlos Marques1Ana C. Pereira2Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalDepartment of Physics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalISOPlexis, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Technology, University of Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal, PortugalCortisol monitoring in the agri-food sector is considered a valuable tool due to its direct correlation with growth, reproduction, the immune system, and overall animal welfare. Strategies to monitor this stress hormone and its correlation to food quality and security have been studied in fish farming and the livestock industry. This review discusses studies on monitoring cortisol in the food industry for the first time. The impact of cortisol on animal production, quality, and the security of food products, and the analytical procedures commonly implemented for sample pre-concentration and quantification by liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, are reviewed and discussed according to the results published in the period 2012–2022. Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the leading agri-food sector, where cortisol’s impact and usefulness are better known than in livestock. The determination of cortisol in fish not only allows for an increase in the production rate, but also the ability to monitor the water quality, enhancing the sustainable development of this industry. In cattle, further studies are needed since it has mainly been used to detect the administration of illicit substances. Current analytical control and monitoring techniques are expensive and often depend on invasive sampling, not allowing fast or real-time monitoring.https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/13/6/692stress monitoringcortisolanimal welfarefood industryextractionLC-MS/MS |
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| title | The Importance of Monitoring Cortisol in the Agri-Food Sector—A Systematic Review |
| title_full | The Importance of Monitoring Cortisol in the Agri-Food Sector—A Systematic Review |
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| title_short | The Importance of Monitoring Cortisol in the Agri-Food Sector—A Systematic Review |
| title_sort | importance of monitoring cortisol in the agri food sector a systematic review |
| topic | stress monitoring cortisol animal welfare food industry extraction LC-MS/MS |
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