Two Internet resellers of UPC barcodes used by retailers for price scanning and inventory purposes, have settled charges that they violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by inviting competitors to join in a collusive scheme to raise the ...
Global standards organisation GS1 has received accreditation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as issuing agency for unique device identifiers (UDI). Global GS1 Standards meet the government’s criteria for UDI and will ...
Tags: FDA Accreditation, GS1
GS1 Australia, with the support of the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), has officially launched GS1 Recallnet Healthcare – an electronic product recall notification management system for therapeutic goods. GS1 ...
Tags: Healthcare Transport, Service
International product and supply chain standards setter GS1 has added packaging sustainability to its raft of data tracking capabilities, announcing it has joined The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and released a new standard, the Global ...
GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) are collaborating to enable bar code scanning features built directly into mobile devices. This will make it ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Packaging, Printing
AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on bar code, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, has opened the nomination period for its annual Automatic Identification and Mobility industry awards. Nominations for the 2013 AIM Awards ...
Tags: AIM, Mobility Industry, Textile
GS1 US and the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, two leading supply-chain standards organizations serving multiple industry sectors, said they have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their operations. ...
Tags: GS1 US, VICS, supply-chain standards, integration process, logistics
Major American retailers, brands and technology providers have agreed on a set of guidelines for assigning serialized identification numbers to individual items – making it possible to trace individual products as they move through ...
Tags: GS1 US, information standards organization, apparel supply chain