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If you use Seagull Scientific’s BarTender label program, you might have come across this little problem. Someone sends you a label file, but when you start up BarTender and try to open the file, you get the error message that tells you the label was made in a newer version of the program and you […]

Food and seafood have made a splash in the news as of late revealing contaminated spinach, deadly meat, and counterfeit seafood. With the FDA bearing down on regulations for traceability from farm to fork or sea to server, growers/fisheries must be able to identify lots/catches. Many are doing this voluntarily and are moving ahead of the […]

One of the common misconceptions in barcode tracking is that the tracking barcodes need to contain all the information that you need to know about the contents of a container, such as the part number, the quantity, the manufacturer, the lot number and the expiration date. While there are content standards, such as that specified […]

There is a lot of information on the FDA Unique Device Identification program scattered around the web and I thought it would be a good idea to post links to some of the best resources – I started this more my own benefit, but it might help others with an interest in this topic. If you are […]