WASHINGTON (WUSA) — The Verify inbox is filled with your questions about suspicious claims being shared on social media about coronavirus. One Facebook post with close to 400,000 shares online says to ...

As false claims about where products are made have increased amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an old rumor has resurfaced on Facebook suggesting that a barcode can reveal the country of origin of an item.

Barcode technology has become so widespread that many consumers take it for granted, but the technology continues to offer numerous benefits in a wide array of businesses. With only some basic ...

Viral images on social media make the claim that barcode prefixes can identify where a particular product was made ( here, here). Different instances of this post are making this claim to encourage ...

Cradle-to-grave management and tracking of laboratory chemicals is required by various regulations and enforced by City, County, State, and Federal (DHS and OSHA) regulators. This requires that ...

A Barcode is a representation of data in a machine-readable format; it shows data about the object to which it attaches. Barcode is generally made of parallel lines of different widths and is referred ...

No, a barcode does not tell you where an item was manufactured. The number tells you what the item is, who owns the item and which GS1 office licensed the number. The Verify inbox is filled with your ...