Are you packaging your craft beers in cans – or maybe thinking of switching to this package type? A lot of small breweries have already done this and are finding that printed cans are expensive, sometimes hard to source and produce a lot of inventory to manage. With craft brewers introducing new products all the […]
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2016 GMO Label Law Update
2015 was a year filled with updates about trends with GMO labeling. In fact, if you have been following the news related to GMOs, you may be aware of the developments at the end of 2015 regarding possible legislation where it would not be required for states to have companies share products that contain GMOs. […]
The Unified Wine & Grape Symposium 2016
The annual Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, the largest industry gathering for those in the wine and grape business, is scheduled for January 27th – 28th in Sacramento, CA. Along with a full program of educational content for industry members, the Symposium also features an exhibit hall where companies will be showing their products covering just about every […]
An Introduction to GS1 Barcodes
GS1 is the global entity that sets barcode and data standards that make supply chains work. While we tend to think of GS1 in terms of barcodes, the whole GS1 concept is really built around the data – barcodes are just a convenient way of keeping the data where it needs to be and provide […]
Simplify Serialization Aggregation with Helper Codes
If you are working on a serialization project for your Federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) compliance, you’ll know that capturing the data from round containers can be tricky. As you pack the individual bottles into cartons, you need to be able to automatically scan the serialization barcode on the label in order to […]