New Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Bar Codes

The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) has just updated their guide for formatting, encoding, and placing bar codes on … [Read more...]

Helping You Meet PTI Milestones

Strict regulations, high material costs, and consumer pressures for safer food are just some of the factors impacting food producers today. The recent … [Read more...]

Track-and-Trace Benefits the Foodservice Industry

Major foodservice companies are seeing measurable benefits as part of the industry-driven Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative. Two years ago, the … [Read more...]

Foodservice Industry Adopting GS1 Standards

Technologies that track products throughout the supply chain using GS1 standards are now being used in the foodservice industry as well. Foodservice … [Read more...]

Why Standards Improve Food Safety

Because food sources are global, and food manufacturers commingle ingredients from a variety of suppliers, you don't really know where the food you … [Read more...]

Printing GS1 Datamatrix for UDI Applications

If you are involved with manufacturing medical devices, you'll be aware of the proposed new Unique Device Identification (UDI) rules from the … [Read more...]

PTI Outlines Format for Case Labels

If your goal is to implement the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) in your business, then you are aware of the industry-wide effort to create a … [Read more...]

GS1 Datamatrix Barcode and UDI

The GS1 128 barcode has become a standard in many industries for allowing data to be encoded into barcodes using standard formats so that the data can … [Read more...]

PTI Seeks Volunteers to Help With Traceability Practices

The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is seeking volunteers from the fresh produce industry to guide future traceback procedures and help … [Read more...]

GS1 – The Value Chain

GS1 is the organisation responsible for many of the standards that make supply chains work. If you are here in the US, you probably still think of … [Read more...]