Bar Codes: Know Where Your Products and Food Come From

http://www.wikihow.com/Read-12-Digit-UPC-Barcodes

http://www.gs1ca.org/page.asp?LSM=0&intNodeID=82&intPageID=347

http://www.gs1ca.org/files/std_BarCodingBasicsforShippingContainers_en.pdf

http://www.gs1ca.org/files/std_BarCodingforDesignersPrintersPackagers_en.pdf

Bar Code first 3 digits:

690-692 MADE IN CHINA
00 - 09 USA & CANADA
30 – 37 FRANCE
40 – 44 GERMANY
471 Taiwan
49 JAPAN
50 UK

BUY USA & CANADIAN MADE by watching for "0" at the beginning of the number.

Remember that distributor country may be different from where the product was made.

From Don McLeod