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Important information about barcodes
#11
There's no 666. It sucks.
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#12
partis Wrote:Interesting, thanks…

what about this…


HA HA HA

Thats funny. Mostly coincidence I bet.
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#13
Ekwarph Wrote:There's no 666. It sucks.

Actually, its 999.
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#14
partis Wrote:It would be impossible to live my life checking every single barcode

Not really.

You check what usual products you buy, and you know where they come from, so you only need to check those once a year to see if anything has changed.

Everything else should be easy enough.
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#15
LONDONER Wrote:OK, someone on another forum has just posted this:

The first two or three digits of an EAN-13 barcode identify the country in which the manufacturer's identification code was assigned. They do not necessarily indicate the country in which the goods were manufactured. Many countries have EAN coding authorities which regulate the use of retail barcodes. For names, addresses, and telephone numbers, click here to view our list of Standards Organizations. In the United States the UPC-A and UPC-E symbologies are used for marking retail products; the administering authority is the Uniform Code Council in Dayton, Ohio (tel. 937-435-3870).

EAN•UCC Prefixes Country ISO country code
00 to 13 UCC (USA & Canada) us/ca
20 to 29 In-store numbers
30 to 37 GENCOD-EAN France fr
380 BCCI (Bulgaria) bg
383 EAN Slovenija si
385 EAN Croatia hr
387 EAN-BIH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) ba
400 to 440 CCG (Germany) de
45 + 49 Distribution Code Center DCC (Japan) jp
460 to 469 UNISCAN - EAN Russia (Russian Federation) ru
471 EAN Taiwan tw
474 EAN Estonia ee
475 EAN Latvia lv
476 EAN Azerbaijan az
477 EAN Lithuania lt
478 EAN Uzbekistan uz
479 EAN Sri Lanka lk
480 PANC (Philippines) ph
481 EAN Belarus by
482 EAN Ukraine ua
484 EAN Moldova md
485 EAN Armenia am
486 EAN Georgia ge
487 EAN Kazakhstan kz
489 HKANA (Hong-Kong) hk
50 e.centre gb
520 EAN HELLAS (Greece) gr
528 EAN Lebanon lb
529 EAN Cyprus cy
531 EAN-MAC (FYR Macedonia) mk
535 EAN Malta mt
539 EAN Ireland ie
54 EAN Belgium.Luxembourg be/lu
560 CODIPOR (Portugal) pt
569 EAN Iceland is
57 EAN Danmark dk
590 EAN Poland pl
594 EAN Romania ro
599 EAN Hungary hu
600 - 601 EAN South Africa za
608 EAN Bahrain
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609 EAN Mauritius mu
611 EAN Maroc (Morocco) ma
613 EAN Algerie (Algeria) dz
616 EAN Kenya ke
619 Tunicode (Tunisia) tn
621 EAN Syria sy
622 EAN Egypt eg
624 EAN Libya ly
625 EAN Jordan jo
626 EAN Iran ir
627 EAN Kuwait kw
628 EAN Saudi Arabia sa
629 EAN Emirates ae
64 EAN Finland fi
690 - 695 Article Numbering Centre of China - ANCC cn
70 EAN Norge (Norway) no
729 Israeli Bar Code Association - EAN Israel il
73 EAN Sweden se
740 EAN Guatemala gt
741 EAN El Salvador sv
742 EAN Honduras hn
743 EAN Nicaragua ni
744 EAN Costa Rica cr
745 EAN Panama pa
746 EAN Republica Dominicana do
750 AMECE (Mexico) mx
759 EAN Venezuela ve
76 EAN Switzerland ch
770 IAC (Colombia) co
773 EAN Uruguay uy
775 EAN Peru pe
777 EAN Bolivia bo
779 CODIGO - EAN Argentina ar
780 EAN Chile cl
784 EAN Paraguay py
786 ECOP (Ecuador) ec
789 - 790 EAN Brasil br
80 to 83 INDICOD (Italy) it
84 AECOC (Spain) es
850 Camera de Comercio de la Republica de Cuba cu
858 EAN Slovakia sk
859 EAN Czech cz
860 EAN YU (Yugoslavia) yu
867 EAN DPR Korea (North Korea) kp
869 UCCET (Turkey) tr
87 EAN Nederland nl
880 EAN Korea (South Korea) kr
885 EAN Thailand th
888 SANC (Singapore) sg
890 EAN India in
893 EAN Vietnam vn
899 EAN Indonesia id
90 - 91 EAN Austria at
93 EAN Australia au
94 EAN New Zealand nz
955 EAN Malaysia my
958 EAN Macau mo
977 Periodicals (ISSN)
978 - 979 Books (ISBN)
980 Refund receipts
981 - 982 Common currency coupons
99 Coupons


Thanks for the update.

I went to the mall today and was looking at barcodes and using the first list that was posted.

I saw that a lot of products have barcodes pasted or labeled over the original barcodes....usually with prices. Those barcodes are the companies codes which are selling the product in their stores. The original barcode that is covered up, is the one from the company who is the product distributor.

I also noticed that some items were from Canada, but still made in China, and had the Canadian barcode on it.

If you are interested in finding out where your products come from, you can look at the labeled product, find the company who is producing/making it/selling it as a third party vendor.....get online and look them up. See if it is a product that they import or is made in your country. Then you know for sure. If they dont stipulate where it is manufactured, you can email them, call, or write them and ask.

Its not really that time consuming or hard to do. Once you know the brand, then you know where it is made/comes from and dont have to look it up again.
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#16
I had a friend email me this...............

Barcodes - false information

Origins: In the wake of 2008 product scares involving melamine-tainted pet foods, lead-tainted toys, and melamine-tainted milk products, all originating in China, consumers in the U.S. understandably became more apprehensive about the places of origin of the products they were purchasing. However, many found themselves frustrated in their efforts to be more selective buyers because The item reproduced above is a reflection of those fears, a message that purportedly provides
simple, helpful instructions for determining the country of origin of any product. According to this tip, a glance at the first three digits of a product's bar code will tell you where it was made.

Unfortunately, determination of product origins for American consumers isn't quite as cut and dried as it's been made to sound here. First of all, the two- or three-digit country codes referenced above are incorporated into the European Article Number (EAN-13) bar code standard, but not into the UPC-A bar code which is most commonly used in the U.S. Moreover, what those EAN-13 country codes indicate is the country or economic region where a particular bar code was assigned, not necessarily the country where the product identified by that bar code was made:
Q: Does the EAN number indicate the country of origin of a product?

A: No it doesn't. The 3-digit prefix code indicates which numbering organization has allocated the bank of numbers to the company. For example, a company may have its headquarters in South Africa. The EAN organization in South Africa has the code "600," but all the products of the company may be manufactured in England. The English-made products would still have the "600" prefix code. The prefix code is a way to have 70-plus EAN member organizations issuing numbers without having to worry about duplicate numbers.
For example, if a Mexican company imported fruit from Guatemala, then packed and shipped that fruit to Belgium, the country code portion of the final product's bar code would likely indicate an origin of Mexico rather than Guatemala. In that case the bar coding would be of little help to consumers who (for whatever reason) were desirous of avoiding food products grown in Guatemala.

It may be the case that in some parts of the world there is a fair degree of correlation between assignment of bar codes and product origins (i.e., in some countries the preponderance of bar code assignments may apply to domestic products), but for surefire product origin identification consumers must rely upon other methods. In determining the country of origin of a product sold in the U.S., consumers often still have to rely on the standard methof of looking for "Made in [country name]" labels on the packaging.

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