You have to dig very deep to find out it is only the country of origin of the register. The product can, and WILL, still be from china, with dozens of companies filing the registry through another country. They do this all the time, just as they get away with "assembled in the USA" or other such bullshit.
Yeah. This isnt true. Its just not how barcodes work.
Maybe some chinese companies bought up those barcode prefixes...but a barcodes got nothign to do with where something was produced.
A barcode prefix is purchased by and assigned to a company. IT then can use that for its catalog of products. I could make a pencil in the US and a pencil in China and i could give them the exact same barcode.
Dont be a boomer and fall for internet chain email hype. This got passed around along in 2012/2013!
This is not true. The first 6 digits of the UPC code are a company code which is assigned after registration with GS1 so probably sequential or from reserved blocks. The next 5 digits are the product code, and the last digit is a check digit.
The company I work for has 4 different UPC prefixes (from mergers and acquisitions) which now represent different brands. All sell products from China, all sell products from other places including US, the bar codes do not change depending on the Country of Origin.
That page also says 630-639 are China as well.
Is fake news from an old email/facebook chain 6 or 7 years ago. Look up how barcodes work.
Good info, thanks.
This is not true. You can't tell the county of origin simply by looking at the numbers in the UPC barcode.
You can google if you're really interested in understanding how barcodes work. I don't remember well enough to actually explain it.
It's not that simple.
You have to dig very deep to find out it is only the country of origin of the register. The product can, and WILL, still be from china, with dozens of companies filing the registry through another country. They do this all the time, just as they get away with "assembled in the USA" or other such bullshit.
Thanks for the info pede. I'll be checking these numbers before I buy anything.
Yeah. This isnt true. Its just not how barcodes work.
Maybe some chinese companies bought up those barcode prefixes...but a barcodes got nothign to do with where something was produced.
A barcode prefix is purchased by and assigned to a company. IT then can use that for its catalog of products. I could make a pencil in the US and a pencil in China and i could give them the exact same barcode.
Dont be a boomer and fall for internet chain email hype. This got passed around along in 2012/2013!
This is not true. The first 6 digits of the UPC code are a company code which is assigned after registration with GS1 so probably sequential or from reserved blocks. The next 5 digits are the product code, and the last digit is a check digit.
The company I work for has 4 different UPC prefixes (from mergers and acquisitions) which now represent different brands. All sell products from China, all sell products from other places including US, the bar codes do not change depending on the Country of Origin.
https://www.gs1us.org/
From the GS1 page: https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/company-prefix
GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product. **
#471 will blow your mind
Also Soros has is claws in wikipedia
They also have to put “Made in Chy-Na” by the upc as well