How to read Product Bar Codes
Readers, Mothers and Consumers are you guys aware on which country where your foods and basic necessity came from or where been produced and manufactured?
Did you know that you, personally can recognize and identify which country made your foods at.? By checking Product Bar Codes attached from the packaging. Now a days 99% of product that we buy from the Super Markets has its own bar codes special food products besides from the tag "made in".
Now a days most of the products from the market are produced and manufactured in China, maybe the reason why is, many manufacturing company invested in China was the high percentage of manpower, it means in business the labor from China is cheapest than the other country since the the demand on manpower is high in percentage.
There's a lot of rumors spreading around the world and on social media mostly, how does China produced their product and special food products they say some of the components or ingredients are made of "plastic and substandard produced" that's why sometimes the prices are very cheap than the other.
Now for us to have piece of mind whether where the food products that we buy from the market came from it is important tips to read the bar code to identify its origin see reference below on how to identify country origin per first 3 and 2 digits of bar code.
Product Bar Codes Reference:
Made in Central America - (740)
Made in China - (890)
Made in Denmark - (57)
Made in Finland - (64)
Made in France - (30 - 37)
Made in Germany - (40 - 49)
Made in Hong Kong - (489)
Made in India - (890)
Made in Japan - (45 and 49)
Made in Saudi (KSA) - (628)
Made in Liechtenstein / Switzerland - (76)
Made in Taiwan - (471)
Made in United Arab Emirates (UAE) - (629)
Made in United Kingdom (UK) - (50)
Made in United US / Canada (UK) - (00-09)
Made in Philippines - (480)
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