QR Codes – GS1 Digital Link & DPP
Comply with GS1 and ISO standards for establishing and maintaining traceability systems in the food chain. Traceability (ISO 9001:2015) of a product or service can relate to:
- Origin of ingredients & materials
- Processing history
- Distribution & location after delivery
Under the EU Green Deal, draft legislation known as the Sustainable Product initiative has been proposed as a means to ensuring transparency and traceability along global supply chains. The draft Sustainable Product policy requires all companies to share product data around a data structure pre-decided by EU legislation. GS1 UK and Europe supports an architecture for EU Digital Product Passports (DPP).
Traditional barcodes are limited in their capability to store multiple items of information about a product. Currently traditional barcodes store information such as, name of product, brand owner, product type, size, weight and price. The new GS1 Digital link QR codes, provide sellers / brand owners the ability to store multiple items of information about products.
How it works:
Benefits:
Means to connect a product to multiple sources of data
Simplifies & Consolidates data: facilitates your disclosure and external reporting requirements.
Ability to drill down into results for analysis, with ability to slice data.
Printable PDFs for your disclosures, and access to underlying data rolled-up for further analyses and external reporting.
Is based on open standards, as developed at GS1 and elsewhere and ensures interoperability;
Downloadable into Microsoft Excel for further analyses.