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Anyone have the Walmart barcode list showing the country of source for each number? Especially want to know which food and pet food products are from China and couldn't find the list on Google or the Walmart site.
I doubt if you can tell. Products that are labeled for sale in the USA almost always have a USA barcode number, beginning with the digit zero. I have a few things from Mexico, mostly with 0, but one with a 643, which should be Finland, but it says product of Mexico, sold under license by an American company, and Mexico should be 7. I also have some "california pitted prunes", bar code starting with 802, which is assigned to Italy, but the brand is Sunsweet Growers Inc., Yuba CIty CA. I have a basmati rice from India (690 = China). Barcode Prefixes and Product Country of Origin... (If You're Pushed to Buy Foreign 'Stuff' Know Where it Originated) | KnowTheLies.com - The Truth is Hidden in Plain View...
However, with a few rare exceptions, a product sold in USA must have a label that states, in English, country of origin.
Like my sardines from Morocco, bearing a USA barcode.
I doubt if you can tell. Products that are labeled for sale in the USA almost always have a USA barcode number, beginning with the digit zero. I have a few things from Mexico, mostly with 0, but one with a 643, which should be Finland, but it says product of Mexico, sold under license by an American company, and Mexico should be 7. I also have some "california pitted prunes", bar code starting with 802, which is assigned to Italy, but the brand is Sunsweet Growers Inc., Yuba CIty CA. I have a basmati rice from India (690 = China). Barcode Prefixes and Product Country of Origin... (If You're Pushed to Buy Foreign 'Stuff' Know Where it Originated) | KnowTheLies.com - The Truth is Hidden in Plain View...
However, with a few rare exceptions, a product sold in USA must have a label that states, in English, country of origin.
Like my sardines from Morocco, bearing a USA barcode.
Many of Walmart's products do not state the country of origin; the label simply states" Distributed by Wal-Mart Stores..". I don't know how they got around it, but they did and that's why I'm trying to get those barcodes.
Again, briefly, the bar code only indicates the country in which the bar-code was applied for, and that could be anybody along the way, and they would get a barcode number that corresponded with where they were when they applied for it.
If sardines caught off Morocco by Russian ships and taken to Spain where they are processed by a Japanese owned company and labeled for export to a Canadian importer who packages them under the WalMart brand, the bar-code could reflect whomever along the line applied for the applicable bar-code..
We ALWAYS bought Wal mart brand (great value) 6 pack juice.
One day I noticed the apple juice said the juice came from china. That PO me. Bad enough all their products are here...now their food.
Now I pay extra & buy the welchs or minute maid 6 packs.
here is a post that give the region number of some countries [URL="http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Health/how-to-read-bar-codes-and-avoid-harmful-foods.html"]How to Read Bar Codes and Avoid Harmful Foods - Facts Analysis-HoaxOrFact.com Analysis.[/URL]
By the way, I think you can download some barcode reader APP which can scan and give you the encoded information. [URL="http://www.barcodelib.com/java_barcode/main.html"]Barcode for Java | Java Barcode Generator for Generating Barcode Images in Java Applications[/URL]
We ALWAYS bought Wal mart brand (great value) 6 pack juice.
One day I noticed the apple juice said the juice came from china. That PO me. Bad enough all their products are here...now their food.
Now I pay extra & buy the welchs or minute maid 6 packs.
Read UR labels people...
Apple juice from china??
thanks for the heads up-im going to be checking from now on
The bar code tells you where the company is headquartered, not where the product was made or grown. It's where the paperwork was filed to obtain the bar code.
All apple juice from concentrate comes from China. They put all American apple processors out of business. Unless you are buying super expensive apple juice from a local health food grower, you are not buying American grown or processed apple juice.
Fresh apples are more likely to be from either America or Chile. Washington state, which grows a lot of the apples eaten in the states, will have a sticker on each apple identifying it as Washington grown, or it will state USA. Most fruit from Chile also states the origin. So at least you can still eat fresh apples.
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