Country barcode prefixes do not indicate where a product was made, only the country where the company that makes the product is registered. Also, Israel hasn't changed its barcode prefix. Since ...

Barcodes that originated in Israel may have numbers beginning 729. This doesn’t mean those products were manufactured there. Not all barcodes for products or companies based in Israel will have this ...

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 ...

A Dec. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims to show how to identify products from Israel by looking at the first three digits below a barcode. “Israel barcode numbers 729, 841, 871.

Multiple social media posts claim to show how to identify products coming from Israel. These posts explain that if the barcode starts with the number 729, 841, or 871, these products have been ...

GS1 US has released a service known as the GS1 US Data Hub that enables retailers to quickly identify a product supplier by means of an RFID or bar-code label attached to that item, and helps to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Country barcode prefixes do not indicate where a product was made, only the country where the company that makes the product is registered. Also, Israel hasn't changed its barcode prefix. Since ...