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Mar 12, 2010 • Comments Closed Say goodbye to the old, familiar blue oval sticker you’re probably used to seeing on Sunkist premium citrus fruits. As soon as the company depletes its current stock of those old blue brand-familiar stickers, they will phase in a new GS1 DataBar label the company says includes embedded information such as a registered Sunkist identification number, the citrus variety,...
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Mar 9, 2010 • Comments Closed We have a brand new and very compelling White Paper just out. Compliance with UDI Labeling Mandates: A Proven Methodology, was produced because, as the introduction states: There has never been a better or more urgent time for manufacturers of healthcare products to make a close examination of their product labeling systems. If you read...
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Mar 4, 2010 • Comments Closed Thanks to a recent initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, for the first time in American history someone has finally put a price tag on what it costs people in the United States each year who get sick from bad food. After crunching all the numbers, the grand total comes to $152 billion (yes, that’s...
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Feb 19, 2010 • Comments Closed A brief item in the Daily Mirror out of the UK notes that Sri Lanka launched its debut GS1 website in January. As the Mirror notes, this now means: GS1 Standards are operating in over 108 countries with over one million organisations being members of GS1. Sri Lanka isn’t a big place. It is about 25,000 square...
Okay, we continue to see bad actors in the supply chain and they continue to be . . .
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May 6, 2009 • Comments Closed This article by Elizabeth Weise of USA TODAY is worth looking at just for the graphics representing the 15 major food outbreaks in the United States dating back to 1996. It’s also
I received this from the folks at the GS1 Global Office. It is a detailed and handy summary
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Jan 22, 2009 • Comments Closed Tainted milk products were discovered and reported in China last September. Less than five months later
Since GS1′s Thanksgiving Eve issuance of a news release clarifying the fact that barcodes are not a reliable indicator of a product’s country of origin (COO), they have gained
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Dec 8, 2008 • Comments Closed Steve Lombardi is an attorney. Writing for a site called InjuryBoard.com – which has a tag line ‘Promoting Safety, Protecting Rights’ — Mr. Lombardi has posted an opinion piece with this title: Product Label Codes: On what grocery store shelf is melamine hiding?
[Editor's note: the country of origin (COO) label issue continues to gain momentum. We've touched on labeling COO in a number of posts and examined the topic, both its myths and realities. This latest post by Sterling raises the bar further on this because
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Dec 2, 2008 • Comments Closed Just off the wire, courtesy of AgWeb.com: Canada has filed a request with the WTO for consultations with the U.S. over the mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law.
GHS and Regulatory Labeling Challenges in the New Era 
