In the wake of 2008 product scares involving melamine-tainted pet foods, lead-tainted toys, and melamine-tainted milk products, all originating in China, consumers in the U.S. understandably became ...

Traceability, productivity, and compliance labeling requirements (such as GS-1) are driving the fresh food industry to use bar-code technology—at the dockside, in the field, at the production line, ...

Optio Advanced Labeling(TM) Supports Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Bar-Code Technology, as Well as on-Demand Printing from Mobile Devices Attendees of this year's Healthcare Information ...

Bar codes are traded all over the world among companies and the codes are not a conclusive way to determine a product’s country of origin. Bar code prefixes are assigned based on the location of the ...

N. Joseph Woodland, a co-inventor of the system of thick and thin lines that became the ubiquitous bar code labeling nearly every product regulated by commerce, has died. He was 91. Woodland died ...

Bar codes began without fanfare in 1967 when railroads introduced them to distinguish freight cars. Some railroads used them, more did not, and seven years passed before supermarkets brought the ...

Bar codes turn 40 this week, but they aren’t over the hill yet. It was a Thursday morning when the first unique sticker of white and black lines facilitated the purchase of a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit ...

Dubai, May 7, 2006--Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA) announced today it has entered into an agreement with IBM Global Technology Services that incorporates Zebra's leading mobility, bar ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...