02-26-2014, 08:34 PM
There's no 666. It sucks.
 Important information about barcodes
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Ekwarph
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MisterTinkles
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02-26-2014, 08:48 PM
partis Wrote:Interesting, thanks… HA HA HA Thats funny. Mostly coincidence I bet.
MisterTinkles
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02-26-2014, 08:48 PM
Ekwarph Wrote:There's no 666. It sucks. Actually, its 999.
MisterTinkles
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02-26-2014, 08:50 PM
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.
MisterTinkles
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02-26-2014, 08:58 PM
LONDONER Wrote:OK, someone on another forum has just posted this: 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.
MisterTinkles
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02-27-2014, 04:04 PM
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. Last updated: 15 July 2013 Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2014 by snopes.com. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com. Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/...UCXjeYu.99 |
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