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Bar Code Accreditation

GS1 Accreditation and Bar Code Verification
GS1 Accreditation is a programme administered jointly by GS1 New Zealand and GS1 Australia that provides participating companies with a bar code quality assurance programme guaranteeing all partners who receive the company’s products that the numbers and bar codes on the products are fully compliant with GS1 specifications. Accredited companies are recognised as being committed to excellence in product identification and bar coding. They may be exempted the reporting requirements imposed on suppliers by the grocery and hardware sectors and a growing number of other retailers.

Accredited companies are licensed to carry out verification on the bar codes on their own products and may issue reports that will be accepted by retailers in lieu of the GS1 verification reports many retailers require as a condition of accepting products.

Being accredited provides participating companies with a superb means of ensuring that all of the numbers they allocate and the bar codes they use are absolutely correct. Where trading partners impose verification reporting requirements, accreditation provides a fast track to market by avoiding the need to send samples to GS1 in Australia or New Zealand for testing.

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