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October 8, 2008

I don’t know if this will surprise you. I receive an email about another China product scare and this involves the product’s barcode. According to the email you will know where’s the product came from through its barcode. I’m a bit skeptic about this because I thought that this is just another hoax circling the web. But through extensive research (naks), I found out that this one is true. According to Makebarcode.com “The first two or three digits of an EAN-13 barcode identify the country in which the manufacturer’s identification code was assigned. They do not necessarily indicate the country in which the goods were manufactured. Many countries have EAN coding authorities which regulate the use of retail barcodes.”

Click more for the list of barcode first two or three digit of different countries.

Country Codes of EAN 13

00 - 13	USA and Canada
	internal use
20 - 29	internal use

30 - 37	France

380	Bulgaria

383	Slovenia

385	Croatia

387	Bosnia-Herzegowina

400 - 440	Germany

45 + 49	Japan

460 - 469	Russia

471	Taiwan

474	Estonia

475	Latvia

476	Aserbeidjan

477	Lithuania

478	Usbekistan

479	Sri Lanka

480	Philippines

481	Belorussia

482	Ukraine

484	Moldawien

485	Armenien

486	Georgien

487	Kazakhstans

489	Hong Kong

50	Great Britain

520	Greece

528	Lebanons

529	Cyprus

531	Macedonians

535	Maltas

539	Ireland

54	Belgium and Luxembourg

560	Portugal

569	Iceland

57	Denmark

590	Poland

594	Rumania

599	Hungary

600, 601	South Africa

608	Bahrein

609	Mauritius

611	Morocco

613	Algeria

616	Kenya

619	Tunisia

621	Syria

622	Egypt

624	Lybien

625	Jordan
	Jordan
626	Irans
	Irans
627	Kuwait
	Kuwait
628	Saudi-Arabien
	Saudi-Arabien
629	United Arab Emirates

64	Finland

690 - 695	China

70	Norway

729	Israels

73	Sweden

740 - 745	Central America (Guatemala, el Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama)

746	Dominican Republic

750	Mexico

759	Venezuelas

76	Switzerland and Liechtenstein

770	Colombia

773	Uruguay

775	Peru

777	Bolivia

779	Argentina

780	Chile

784	Paraguay

786	Ecuador

789 - 790	Brazil

80 - 83	Italy

84	Spain

850	Cuba

858	Slovakia

859	Czech Republic

860	Yugoslavia

867	Nord-Korea

869	Turkey

87	Netherlands

880	South Korea

885	Thailand

888	Singapore

890	India

893	Vietnam

899	Indonesia

90, 91	Austria

Source: Activebarcode.com

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