**3. Ongoing Work and Future Directions**

To ensure that EuroFIR AISBL resources remain valuable to user communities, it is important not only to update, expand, and enhance databases, but also to do these in standardized and harmonized ways among organizations and countries, considering existing and emerging food sources, and adding new descriptors and markers as necessary. To this end, engagement with networks and research infrastructures is a priority, creating synergies necessary to generate high-quality data and develop tools for the production, management, and exploitation of food data. In line with the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), the research infrastructure METROFOOD-RI and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), strategies leading to reliable and comparable analytical measurements in foods along food chains, from primary producers to consumers and beyond (food waste) and increasingly FAIR data [81] are valuable for researchers, food producers, and consumers. However, continued cooperation and sharing of data between compilers and users, within an integrated approach for agro-food, nutrition, and health, are key to success. Management of data at agro-food, nutrition, and health interfaces is a priority, but integrating FCDBs and infrastructures (interoperability) can only be achieved if approaches are applied based on metrological principles [81–86].

In this context, EuroFIR AISBL is involved in Member and Client activities and EU or otherwise-funded projects considering a range of relevant topics. The Food Nutrition Security Cloud (FNS-Cloud, Grant Agreement ID: 863059, www.fns-cloud.eu, accessed on 26 October 2022) aims to support integration of existing and emerging food research data and tools to address diet and health research questions across agro-food, nutrition and lifestyle, and non-communicable disease and healthy diet domains [87].

EuroFIR AISBL is also active in the proposed Food Nutrition Health Research Infrastructure (FNH-RI), which aims to link food production (agriculture and food technology) and food consumption (food determinants, intake, nutrition, and health) domains. To this end, a prototype *Determinants and Intake Platform*, harmonizing and linking consumer food behaviors, was formulated based on EuroDISH (Study on the need for food and health research infrastructures in Europe, Grant Agreement ID: 311788) and RICHFIELDS (Research infrastructure on consumer health and food intake using e-science with linked data sharing, Grant Agreement ID: 654280) outputs [88].

With the food environment undergoing vast changes, the need to study the nutritional variation in processed foods has driven an international move for branded food composition databases (BFCDBs). EuroFIR AISBL is working with its members to create a platform for collaboration and advocacy around BFCDBs, addressing user needs and gaps surveyed in 2020–2021. During the EuroFIR Food Forum 2021, a workshop was dedicated to BFCDBs, discussing advances at the European level and open access issues.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, A.D. and P.F.; writing—original draft preparation, A.D., S.A., M.K., H.S.C., A.M.-V., L.P., L.B., M.G., K.P. and P.F. All authors have made substantial, direct, and intellectual contributions to the work and approved it for publication. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
