How to read a bar code on a package?
How to read a bar code on a package?
I purchased a cosmetic product from Ebay and it appears to be old. Does anyone know how to read a bar code to determine the date on the back of the package? Here is what the bar code numbers looks like 0 41554 67510 8.
Thanks
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4 Comments for How to read a bar code on a package?
1. Jesse H | December 27th, 2010 at 2:23 am
I’d have to see the actually bars and know the encryption used in order to decrypt it.
2. Daniel B | December 27th, 2010 at 3:20 am
That looks like a Universal Product Code (UPC), which means the number you are seeing is exactly whats encoded into the bar code. This is just a unique number that identifies the product and doesn’t tell you anything about when it was manufactured. There might be an expiration date somewhere else on the package.
3. Doug | December 27th, 2010 at 3:38 am
you cannot determine the age of a product by the barcode. all the barcode is,is this: 0 = extra number for use in the future, 41554 = company id number (revlon,Clairol etc…) 67510 = product ID number (lipstick,maroon blah blah blah) 8= digit commonly used by retailers in their inventory system to categorize items,often un used.
4. Mark G | December 27th, 2010 at 4:28 am
The bar code is NOT a date code. It is a unique number that Identifies a product and manufacturer.
Product date codes may be printed or embossed into the cardboard and can be a set of numbers or in a date format. There is no standard to date codes so one manufacturer can print month and year while another may indicate a two digit year followed by a Julian date (number of days since JAN 1).
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