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IUID adoption offers many advantages to contractors and suppliers who sell their products to the DoD. UID is an important mandate for the DoD, and government program managers and contractors selling to the DOD need to comply with this mandate. Yet IUID adoption is slow, with only a small percentage of suppliers actually complying. Resistance […]

Despite the fact that tracking of DoD assets offers tremendous savings in money and time, many in the government and commercial sectors are slow to adopt this technology. Why are the more than 60,000 suppliers to the DoD not up to speed with the required marking of unique identification numbers? Item marking is necessary to achieve […]

If you ship products to the US Department of Defense, you’ll need to label them to comply with MIL-STD-129. This covers the labels you need for different packages and includes RFID labeling. This short video (the 3rd in a series of 4) was produced by Winco ID and Zebra Technologies and covers what is needed to […]

Although the Food Safety Modernization Act, passed last December, excluded many small farmers and food producers from some of the regulations, many are still worried that new rules will cause them more harm than good. Very small businesses who sell less than $500,000 in the same state and are within 275 miles of the food […]

Mobile bar code applications are now spilling into the wine industry. Some wineries, such as JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery in California, are now using 2D bar codes on their labels to inform consumers of their product. If you aren’t a wine connoisseur, it can be confusing to try and select a nice wine just by looking at […]