The Recall That Found Every Affected Customer

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

What if a product recall could reach every affected customer and leave everyone else alone? Here’s how lot-level QR codes and a resolver make that possible.

A Recall the Old Way

It starts with a phone call nobody wants to receive.

A mid-size food brand - let’s call them Greenfield Provisions - learns that batch 4521 of their organic peanut butter may be contaminated with salmonella. The batch represents about 3,200 jars, shipped to roughly 140 retail locations across three states over the past six weeks.

Three Regulations, One QR Code: The Compliance Case for GS1 Digital Link

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

FSMA 204, EU Digital Product Passport and DSCSA all require the same thing: a data carrier that resolves to structured product data. Here’s why one QR code covers all three.

Something unusual is happening across three of the most consequential product regulations of the decade. The FDA’s food traceability rule, the European Union’s Digital Product Passport and the U.S. drug supply chain law were written by different agencies, in different countries, for entirely different industries. Yet when you strip away the regulatory language and look at what each actually demands at the technical level, you find the same architecture repeated three times.

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The Recall That Found Every Affected Customer

A Recall the Old Way

Three Regulations, One QR Code: The Compliance Case for GS1 Digital Link