No, a barcode does not tell you where an item was manufactured. The number tells you what the item is, who owns the item and which GS1 office licensed the number. The Verify inbox is filled with your ...

As false claims about where products are made have increased amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an old rumor has resurfaced on Facebook suggesting that a barcode can reveal the country of origin of an item.

Barcode technology makes real-time data collection possible. Despite the multitude of barcodes in existence today, universal product codes remain among the most useful to a small business. Because UPC ...

Barcodes that originated in Israel may have numbers beginning 729. This doesn’t mean those products were manufactured there. Not all barcodes for products or companies based in Israel will have this ...

Everything has a number put to it. Every item you purchase is assigned a barcode number: A long number with dark bars above ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA) — The Verify inbox is filled with your questions about suspicious claims being shared on social media about coronavirus. One Facebook post with close to 400,000 shares online says to ...