A Preview of Consumer Advocacy Ahead in Healthcare Products & The Secret of GS1 Compliance

The Associated Press (AP) filed this report entitled, ‘FDA seeks advice to improve tracking of produce.’  This is a very interesting piece worth your careful scrutiny for what it says… and doesn’t say.

‘You’ve got mail… and we know it?’

Perhaps the last thing on planet Earth that will be standardized globally is tangible mail? Nationally, here in the United States, the postal service continues

Solution Available to Address GS1 Barcode and GS1 Label Compliance Issues

Since we’ve been posting on a few negatives and problems lately, I’m going to do a positive bit that’s also a little bit of self-promo here, but hopefully educational, too.

Webinar on GS1 Standards in Healthcare Coming Up Nov. 11th!

You will want to register as early as possible for this: it’s the web seminar on “Improving Patient Safety and Supply Chain Efficiency with Data Standards: The Basics of GS1 Standards in Healthcare.”

Excuse me, but are those GS1 barcodes in your purse?

You’ve probably never heard of Terra Victoria Schwanke. But according to this story in the Winona Daily News yesterday, she is a 35-year-old woman who goes shopping with a purse containing a photo album with pages of barcodes sorted and divided by store names including Fleet Farm, Walmart, Target and Kmart.

GS1 Compliance and ‘Traceability in Healthcare’ Status Update Available

GTSH. It stands for Global Traceability Standard for Healthcare and a status update has just been posted here at this link for your

The Future is Still About Making Profits. And GS1 Compliance Ensures It.

Jeff Hittner, a Corporate Social Responsibility Consulting Leader for IBM Global Business Services seems like a good guy . He has written this think-piece about corporate social responsibility in which he takes issue with profitability being a corporation’s exclusive reason for being. He writes, “…the context for how businesses must operate and the path to profit [...]

Exchange Your Contact Data via a Personal Barcode and iPhone

Several weeks ago I talked out loud in a meeting about the possibility each of us would one day have our own personal GS1 barcode. But I was quickly, and rightfully, reminded

New GS1 Position Paper on Barcodes for Mobile Phone Use

This news reached my desk via a Google keyword News Alert: 17 Sep 2008: GS1 has launched a position paper to give manufacturers, retailers and other existing users of the GS1 system guidance on what barcodes they should consider for mobile phone applications.
The news release announcing this position paper actually came out last month out of [...]

A Handy Tool: myEPCAdvisor.com

myEPCAdvisor.com is an online community forum to support organizations implementing Electronic Product Code

GS1 Compliance, GS1 Labeling and GS1 Traceability Standards Forge Ahead

I just got a copy of the 66-page pdf entitled, DRAFT GS1 Global Traceability Standard GS1 Standards Document.

Produce Traceability Testimony at Request of FDA Begins

Today I saw the first of what I expect will be many more submitted comments and direct testimony at FDA public hearings

New York’s ‘No Scan Do’ Problem

Now for an item from the lighter side, I want to know how in the world are we going to agree on a global product marking standard if the state of New York, for example, can’t put a barcode

Forrester Research Questions GS1 Acceptance in Europe

I missed this Forrester Research blog post in early September. But in the ‘better late than never’ department, here it is now. It’s a post by Principal Analyst George Lawrie. In my opinion it is important for two reasons:

New ‘Barcode Bedlam’ Game? What About GS1 Compliance…?

File this under, “Now I’ve seen everything.” It’s a new online game

Will GS1 Compliance Solve the Question, “Where was this product made?”

Edward Skading is a senior citizen in Malaysia that is in the midst of a beef he has over a product carrying a barcode from a company in Thailand, but that he says was manufactured in Malaysia per the product’s label.

Produce Traceability via GS1 GTIN Standards Gaining Momentum

Some 34 top bananas in the produce business lined up this week behind a plan, a schedule, and a standard to establish a produce traceability solution that will likely see universal

Is Barcode Transparency for Consumers Just a Curiosity?

At one of my favorite blogs, writer Erin posted a short item late last week in answer to questions she’s been getting about how to learn more about a product based on its barcode. You can see her post here. But here’s my question:

I’ve Got a Ticket to Ride… It’s a Barcode On My Cellphone!

I’m a little wary of bringing this story to light on the blog just because if you contemplate the potential of this new cellphone-based, text-messaged boarding pass

GS1 Healthcare September Newsletter Now Available

The GS1 Healthcare Newsletter for September is now available at this link. If you’re like me, you avoid newsletters because they often contain either old news or a lot of corporate-speak. But this newsletter is well-done, timely, and rather rich in GS1 news from around the world.