When does a product need a new bar code? Normally, the answer to that question is fairly straightforward. When a major new ingredient is added — the introduction of Banana Nut Cheerios, for example — ...

Barcodes work based on light reflected back to scanner optics: black does not reflect light, while the white (blank) spaces do reflect light. Because characters (alphabetic, numeric, special) are ...

Some applications identify an asset, product or other item with both an RFID tag and a bar code. For this to work, the same unique identifier must be encoded to both the tag and the bar code. But ...

The change would impact every package and hundreds of systems. All product labeling that carries the National Drug Code (NDC) will need to be updated if FDA finalizes its proposed rule to expand the ...