FoodEx2, developed and maintained by EFSA, is a comprehensive system for classifying and describing food and feed. It offers a standardized terminology framework to support the entire food safety and risk assessment process, from data collection across various food and feed safety domains (e.g., monitoring of pesticides residues or biological hazards) to exposure assessment. To ensure its ongoing relevance and compliance with evolving scientific and legislative requirements, regular maintenance of this system is crucial. Seven major updates were completed so far, with all performed changes documented in annual maintenance reports. This technical report outlines the results of the eighth maintenance process conducted in 2024. Updates included addition of new terms, adjustments to the hierarchical structure, introduction of a new facet category, changes to the reportability of certain terms, deprecation of term and amendments to existing terms ‐ enriching implicit facets and reorganising the hierarchical tree structure and parent‐child relationships.
