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.

EU DPP on Closient Blog

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