By, Alan Garton, GS1 US The use of U.P.C barcodes has become a requirement of doing business in most retail and distribution channels. Retailers generally have the expectation that suppliers will place barcodes on their products and that they will comply with global standards for formatting and accuracy. Needless to say, companies who are asked […]
The Significance of GS1 Certification
August 28, 2015 in Barcode Print Quality
Barcode Verification Equipment – The Significance of GS1 Certification As a specialized barcode certification lab, we are dependent on reliable barcode verification equipment, which can provide standardized and repeatable analysis. Our expertise and testing processes would be meaningless if we used testing equipment which could not be measured against a global standard. Consequently, our barcode […]
Label Compliance for Logistics Cartons
August 26, 2015 in Bar Code Graphics
At this time every year, the volume of GS1-128 shipping label compliance infractions significantly increase. The larger retailers’ supply chains are dependent on automated receiving processes, which require suppliers to be in 100% compliance with their carton label requirements. The most effective way to reduce and/or eliminate offset expenses is to focus on improving performance. […]
FDA launches UDI Database
AccessGUDID (http://accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov/) is now publicly available so anyone can search and download information that device labelers have submitted to the FDA’s GUDID about their medical devices. Because the UDI system is being phased in over the next several years, labelers are currently submitting data on only the highest risk medical devices, a small subset of […]
