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UPC stands for "Universal Product Code", which was the original barcode used in the United States and Canada. The UPC (now officially [[EAN|EAN.UCC-12]] is a numerical method of identifying products without redundancy worldwide for all types of products in the retail sector. The [[EAN]] is a superset of the original UPC increasing the digits to 13 with the prefix 0 reserved for UPC. As of 2005, manufacturers are only allowed to use the new 13-digit codes on their items, rather than having two separate numbers. |
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There are many more sources of information regarding the makeup of the formatting. Some of which can be found here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code] |
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Also see a proposed method with examples on an interim inclusion of this information to a release here on the [[Release Annotation Style|ReleaseAnnotationStyle]] page. |
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An example at the UPC Database showing both the UPC and EAN variations of a product code displayed here, [http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.asp?upc=638592505421 http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.asp?upc=638592505421] |
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[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Terminology]] [[Category:Identifier]] |
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