[PTY Sparky]

This may shed a little more light on the subject:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/barcodes.asp

Stay away from bar code numbers 690-695

That's my 2 cents.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by PTY Sparky

This may shed a little more light on the subject:

snopes.com: Determining Product Origins by Bar Code

Stay away from bar code numbers 690-695

That's my 2 cents.

I does somewhat, but I advise to read the whole article on Snopes. Apparently the country code numbers are not all that reliable.


Unfortunately, determination of product origins for American consumers isn't quite as cut and dried as it's been made to sound here. First of all, the two- or three-digit country codes referenced above are incorporated into the European Article Number (EAN-13) bar code standard, but not into the UPC-A bar code which is most commonly used in the U.S. Moreover, what those EAN-13 country codes indicate is the country or economic region where a particular bar code was assigned, not necessarily the country where the product identified by that bar code was made:
Read more at snopes.com: Determining Product Origins by Bar Code

BUT: It's a start. Thanks for the link, Sparky.