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Reading Barcodes
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I can't verify the veracity of the information, but this sounds reasonable anyway...


ALWAYS READ THE LABELS ON THE FOODS YOU BUY--NO MATTER WHAT THE FRONT OF THE BOX OR PACKAGE SAYS, TURN IT OVER AND READ THE BACK---CAREFULLY!


 
With all the food and pet products now coming from China , it is best to make sure you read label at the grocery store and especially Wal-Mart when buying food products.


Many products no longer show where they were made, only give where the distributor is  located.

It is important to read the bar code to track its origin.

How to read Bar Codes ..... interesting!

This may be useful to know when grocery shopping, if it's a concern to you.

GREAT WAY TO "BUY USA   &  CANADA " AND NOT FROM CHINA!!
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The whole world is concerned about China-made "black hearted goods".
Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or  China ?

If the first 3 digits of the barcode are 690- 691 or 692, the product is MADE IN  CHINA.
471 is Made in Taiwan . 
This is our right to know, but the government and related departments never educate the

public, therefore we have to RESCUE ourselves.

Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products "MADE IN CHINA ", so they don't show from which country it is made.  

However, you may now refer to the barcode - remember if the first 3 digits are:

690-692 ... then it is MADE IN  CHINA
00 - 09 ...  USA   &  CANADA
30 - 37   FRANCE
40 - 44  GERMANY
471 ...  Taiwan
49 ... JAPAN
50 ...  UK


BUY USA & CANADIAN MADE by watching for "0" at the beginning of the number.

We need every boost we can get!  Pass this on to everybody on your E-Mail Contact List!!
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#2
Very inaccurate information, Eagle1. This may be more like what you were trying to say, but far from what you wish it did:

"The GS1 Prefix, the first three digits, usually identifying the national GS1 Member Organization to which the manufacturer is registered (not necessarily where the product is actually made)." (For Example, Mountain Dew is a U.S. subsidiary of the Pepsi company, and has a 12000-10049 bar code, however it is not impossible to buy a case of Mountain Dew bottled in China with this same bar code, in your local store). The bar-code is company-register-specific, not production-location-specific.

Here's the international GS1 Barcode listing - but again, it's just for where the company is 'flagshipped'.

code country
000 – 019 U.S. and Canada
020 – 029 Restricted distribution (MO defined)
030 – 039 U.S. drugs (see U.S. National Drug Code)
040 – 049 Restricted distribution (MO defined)
050 – 059 coupons
060 – 099 U.S. and Canada
100 – 139 U.S. (reserved for later use)
200 – 299 Restricted distribution (MO defined)
300 – 379 France and Monaco
380 Bulgaria
383 Slovenia
385 Croatia
387 Bosnia and Herzegovina
389 Montenegro
400 – 440 Germany (440 code inherited from old East Germany on reunification, 1990)
450 – 459 Japan
460 – 469 Russia
470 Kyrgyzstan
471 Taiwan
474 Estonia
475 Latvia
476 Azerbaijan
477 Lithuania
478 Uzbekistan
479 Sri Lanka
480 Philippines
481 Belarus
482 Ukraine
484 Moldova
485 Armenia
486 Georgia
487 Kazakhstan
488 Tajikistan
489 Hong Kong SAR
490 – 499 Japan
500 – 509 United Kingdom
520 – 521 Greece
528 Lebanon
529 Cyprus
530 Albania
531 Macedonia
535 Malta
539 Ireland
540 – 549 Belgium and Luxembourg
560 Portugal
569 Iceland
570 – 579 Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland
590 Poland
594 Romania
599 Hungary
600 – 601 South Africa
603 Ghana
604 Senegal
608 Bahrain
609 Mauritius
611 Morocco
613 Algeria
615 Nigeria
616 Kenya
618 Côte d'Ivoire
619 Tunisia
620 Tanzania
621 Syria
622 Egypt
623 Brunei
624 Libya
625 Jordan
626 Iran
627 Kuwait
628 Saudi Arabia
629 United Arab Emirates
640 – 649 Finland
690 – 699 China, The People's Republic
700 – 709 Norway
729 Israel
730 – 739 Sweden : EAN/GS1 Sweden
740 Guatemala
741 El Salvador
742 Honduras
743 Nicaragua
744 Costa Rica
745 Panama
746 Dominican Republic
750 Mexico
754 – 755 Canada
759 Venezuela
760 – 769 Switzerland and Liechtenstein
770 – 771 Colombia
773 Uruguay
775 Peru
777 Bolivia
778 – 779 Argentina
780 Chile
784 Paraguay
786 Ecuador
789 – 790 Brazil
800 – 839 Italy, San Marino and Vatican City
840 – 849 Spain and Andorra
850 Cuba
858 Slovakia
859 Czech Republic
860 Serbia
865 Mongolia
867 North Korea
868 – 869 Turkey
870 – 879 Netherlands
880 South Korea
884 Cambodia
885 Thailand
888 Singapore
890 India
893 Vietnam
894 Bangladesh
896 Pakistan
899 Indonesia
900 – 919 Austria
930 – 939 Australia
940 – 949 New Zealand
950 GS1 Global Office: Special applications
951 EPCglobal: Special applications
955 Malaysia
958 Macau
960 – 969 GS1 Global Office: GTIN-8 allocations
977 Serial publications (ISSN)
978 – 979 Bookland (ISBN) – 979-0 used for sheet music (ISMN13, replaces deprecated ISMN M- numbers)
980 Refund receipts
981 – 983 Common Currency Coupons
990 – 999 Coupons

Prefix 950 (GS1 Global Office) is used for special applications and bi-lateral agreements. Prefix 951 is used by EPCglobal. From the 960 range, prefixes 9600 to 9604 have been assigned to GS1 UK for GTIN-8 number allocations. Prefixes not listed above are used by GS1 Global Office for number allocations in countries where there is not yet a GS1 organisation and are reserved for future use. Prefixes used in non-GS1 member countries and reserved by GS1 for future use are:

140 – 199
381, 382, 384, 386 & 388
390 – 399
441 – 449
472 & 473
483
510 – 519
521 – 527
532 – 534 & 536 – 538
550 – 559
561 – 568
580 – 589
591 – 593 & 595 – 598
602 & 605 – 607
610, 612, 614 & 617
630 – 639
650 – 689
710 – 728
747 – 749
751 – 753 & 756 – 758
772, 774 & 776
781 – 783, 785, 787 & 788
791 – 799
851 – 857
861 – 864 & 866
881 – 883, 886, 887 & 889
891, 892, 895, 897 & 898
920 – 929
952 – 954, 956, 957 & 959
970 – 976
984 – 989

Hope this helps straighten things out better.

- Trapper -
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