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Good info. Thanks
Mexico?
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If it’s sitting on a full car lot, with no one driving it, it was made in Detroit...
Does the barcode number indicate the country of origin of a product?
No it doesn't. The 3-digit prefix code indicates which numbering organization has allocated the bank of numbers to the company. For example, a company may have it's headquarters in South Africa. The EAN organization in South Africa has the code "600", but all the products of the company may be manufactured in England. The English-made products would still have the "600" prefix code. The prefix code is a way to have 70-plus EAN member organizations issuing numbers without having to worry about duplicate numbers. A list of country codes can be found here.
MADE IN CHINA usually works pretty good
Bar codes are a pretty archaic way to identify products. They hold just a little data, when they could hold a lot:
http://www.makebarcode.com/specs/speclist.html
(see 2-dimensional bar codes)
More complicated bar codes could include not only where a product was manufactured, but when, when it will expire, what lot it was produced with, who inspected it for quality, even an individual item number and all sorts of other information. Such a bar code could hold up to 2,000 alphanumeric characters. Everything in this comment, including spaces and carriage returns is less than 600 characters.
Dammit, check the internet before you post trash like this. BAR CODES DO NOT INDICATE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN!!!!!!
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