GS1 Digital Link 8 articles tagged "GS1 Digital Link"
The 2026 Jalapeño Recall: One Lot, Eighty Products, Five Companies August 24, 2026
· 9 min read
A contaminated jalapeño lot from one Sinaloa grower turned up in roughly eighty finished products made by five separate companies. Finding which ones took weeks instead of a query - and a fifth company surfaced while we were fact-checking this piece.
The 2026 Lettuce Recall Was Scoped by a Date Printed in Ink August 21, 2026
· 11 min read
A cyclospora outbreak forced a region-wide lettuce recall. The data to scope it precisely was already on every bag as ink, just not machine-readable.
Why We Built Closient April 6, 2026
· 7 min read
The barcode industry agreed on a standard. Nobody built the infrastructure. So we did.
12 Tons of KitKats Disappeared. A QR Code Could Have Found Them. April 4, 2026
· 6 min read
413,793 KitKat bars were stolen in transit and Nestle asked consumers to manually check batch codes. Here's how a GS1 Digital Link resolver could have flagged every stolen bar automatically.
The Barcode is Evolving: Here's What It Means for Your Brand April 3, 2026
· 8 min read
GS1 says the industry is moving from UPC barcodes to 2D barcodes by 2027. Here's what that means for your brand -- and how to get ready.
What Actually Happens When Someone Scans Your QR Code? April 1, 2026
· 8 min read
Everyone's talking about 2D barcodes replacing UPC codes. Nobody's explaining what happens after the scan.
Three Regulations, One QR Code: The Compliance Case for GS1 Digital Link March 29, 2026
· 8 min read
FSMA 204, EU Digital Product Passport, and DSCSA all require the same thing: a data carrier that resolves to structured product data.
You Don't Need to Be P&G to Get Ready for Sunrise 2027 March 28, 2026
· 8 min read
Sunrise 2027 coverage quotes PepsiCo and Walmart. But smaller brands have the advantage.