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What is a check digit? Simply put, a check digit is an extra number added to a barcode to help detect errors. Barcode check digits are calculated using algorithms during both barcode creation and scanning. If the scanned check digit matches the created check digit, the barcode was scanned correctly.
Check digits are foundational to barcode data integrity, validation, and quality. In this blog, we’ll dive into what check digits are, how they work, and why they’re important.
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Until cannabis is federally legalized in the US, cannabis industry professionals are faced with meeting regulations that vary state to state. Keeping up with labeling regulations and seed-to-sale tracking can be overwhelming, but label design software can help. How? In-house and on-demand cannabis labeling.
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Pharmaceutical labeling plays a key role in ensuring patient safety, proper medication use, and regulatory compliance. Health Canada is part of the Canadian federal government responsible for overseeing pharmaceutical drug labeling regulations, ensuring all pharmaceutical products provide accurate and accessible information. Read the blog to learn about more Canadian pharmaceutical labeling rules.
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The FDA is responsible for protecting the public’s health by defining labeling rules and enforcing recalls to ensure safety. Food producers and manufacturers must follow the rules put in place, such as the final rule for FSMA Section 204, set for full compliance by January 2026. Read the blog to learn how to prepare for FSMA Rule 204.
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Color labeling is not a new phenomenon. Manufacturers have long understood the value of incorporating color onto their labels. From branding and marketing to product identification, the opportunities color can provide are limitless.
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This blog will highlight how businesses can optimize labeling practices to align with the triple bottom line framework. Companies can drive ethical, sustainable, and profitable growth by focusing on the interconnected areas of people, planet, and profit.
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The nutrition label is a critical piece of information for consumers when making purchasing decisions, but for food manufacturing companies, the label is much more than calories and an ingredient list. Although changes to food labeling requirements are infrequent, when changes are made, they can be substantial. Read the blog to learn how to comply.
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Within this blog, learn about the importance of remaining complaint with GHS labeling standards and how to create GHS compliant labels with TEKLYNX label design software.
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This blog will guide you through UDI labeling regulations, breaking down the essentials for compliance.
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Read the blog to learn what a 2D barcode is, why they’re growing in popularity, and what the future looks like with GS1 Sunrise 2027.
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In today's health-conscious world, ingredient labels are more than a list of components. They’re a tool for consumer safety, transparency, and trust. According to Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), every 1 in 10 adults has a food allergy and has experienced a severe reaction. Whether you’re in the food & beverage, cosmetics, cannabis, or pharmaceutical industry, ensuring that your ingredient labels are accurate and compliant with regulatory standards is essential.
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Barcodes have been used for over fifty years to communicate information between buyers, sellers, distributors, governments, and more. While a barcode could contain any random string of numbers, the power of barcodes is in standards.
GS1 is the organization behind the most widely used barcode standards in the world. Generating accurate GS1 barcodes is a priority for any business. In this blog, we’ll discuss how to generate GS1 barcodes using barcode label design software.
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Imagine you collect baseball cards. Maybe you started collecting when you were young, and you stashed your collection in a shoebox under your bed. As you grew older and your collection grew with you, you realized you needed to keep your collection more organized. The same concept applies to your labeling environment: growth requires systems!
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Transportation and logistics labels serve as the communication bridge that helps get products to the right place, at the right time. Without correct labels, disruptions in the supply chain take place, creating a domino effect for all other operations.
Food waste is an ongoing challenge faced by the United States (US). According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), approximately 30-40% of the annual food supply is thrown away. This issue arises from consumers misinterpreting the dates indicated on product labels.
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This blog will examine barcode serialization, looking at its fundamental concepts, the benefits it can offer to businesses, and its broad applications across multiple industries. Whether you are in a regulated or non-regulated industry, learn how barcode serialization can shape the future of your business.
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There are thousands of uses for labels across industries, from product identification to shipping to marketing and more. Depending on the use of the label, size may vary from less than an inch to letter (or A4) size. At TEKLYNX, we see customers printing very small and very large labels, and everything in between.
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This blog goes over food safety labeling regulations, prepping for the FDA’s FSMA Section 204, the importance of label accuracy for recall prevention, and if a recall is unavoidable, how labeling solutions help identify the products to remove from the supply chain.
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RFID is a valuable tool for tracking inventory and improving supply chain management. Companies are using RFID tags to create better inventory systems and gain new levels of detail about how their products move through the supply chain. Even consumers are starting to see the benefits of RFID tags when checking out groceries at home or ordering items online for delivery. It’s no surprise that RFID has been labeled a game changer.
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In Canada, robust food labeling requirements are in place for all manufacturers to ensure their labels on food products will protect their consumers. This blog will discuss Canadian food labeling requirements and how to comply with industry standards using barcode labeling software.
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The future of cannabis labeling centers around the efficiencies companies can create to overcome the business challenges of today: timely manual processes prone to human error, disjointed data sources, state-by-state packaging and labeling requirements until cannabis is federally regulated, and inflexible systems hindering expansion. As cannabis companies are maturing and investing in technology, we’re getting more questions about ways to streamline labeling operations and future-proof labeling environments.
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If you encountered a labeling error today, would you be able to confidently pinpoint how and why it took place? Unfortunately, for many companies, the answer is “no.” Many companies have a label design and approval process that is informal, manual, and prone to mistakes.
So, how can you reduce the risk of labeling errors to near zero? You can set your company up for success by implementing an automated label audit trail. A label audit trail is a reliable, consistent way of documenting changes made to label designs. Maintaining an accurate label audit trail reduces the risk of labeling errors and helps pinpoint the cause if they happen.
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While the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulates all food and beverages in the United States and requires nutrition labels, there is one exception – alcohol. This blog will help break down the labeling regulations for alcoholic beverages, common labeling errors for alcohol, and how to overcome them.
Barcode labeling is the common language that allows every link in the automotive supply chain to work together efficiently. This blog will go through the importance of barcode label quality (and how to ensure it), centralizing control of barcode labeling and creating a supplier network to do so, and where to get started.
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Barcode symbologies differ by the type of data they hold and are encoded with. In this blog, we go over the categories of barcodes, the most common types of barcodes, and how to choose the best one for your labels.
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RFID has wide-ranging benefits for the cannabis industry ranging from tracking individual plants to real-time inventorying of thousands of plants to business intelligence capabilities that can integrate with systems for plant lifecycle management, plant, and package inventory, and more.
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Life sciences companies have a lot of factors to consider when it comes to labeling, including changes in regulations on an ongoing basis from authorities like the FDA and EU to protect public health and improve patient safety. This blog will go through global labeling regulations, compliance, labeling system validation, and labeling and artwork management solutions to support it all.
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The cosmetic industry faces strict labeling requirements to protect consumer safety and promote transparency. In this blog, learn what qualifies as a cosmetic, the requirements for a cosmetic product label, and how to choose the best cosmetic labeling software.
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When it comes to barcodes and their use on labels such as product, inventory, shipping, and case labels, quality is paramount. A poor-quality barcode label can result in delays in production, returns, chargebacks, poor customer experience, and potentially recalls – no company wants to face those headaches. Thankfully, there are many options and solutions to help improve the quality of barcode labels and safeguard your business’ labeling processes.
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Companies that integrate labeling software with other business systems are decreasing errors, increasing efficiency, and experiencing revenue growth. This blog will go through what an integrated cannabis labeling solution is (and what it’s not), the benefits of integration, and ways to integrate your labeling software.
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According to the Enterprisers Project, security must be a top priority for technology executives in 2022. Building a secure barcode labeling process is an important piece of a company’s security strategy that has a direct impact on the bottom line.
Mislabeling is one of the top causes of recalls in the United States, and labeling errors stem from gaps in labeling security. This blog will discuss ways to create a managed, controlled, and secure barcode labeling process leveraging better connections between people, software, and process.
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Quality assurance (QA) is critical in manufacturing to ensure safety for employees and consumers of the product being manufactured. In highly-regulated industries like medical device manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences, regulatory authorities like the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Union (EU) have guidelines related to process validation to confirm a company’s processes will result in reliable outputs and meet all necessary quality standards.
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Thermal printing is an extensively used and mature technology that is extremely reliable, but print issues can still occur when printing labels. Manufacturers depend on thermal printing for product identification, dosage information, voltage currents, use-by dates, batch information, model and serial numbers, to name a few.
By leveraging automatic label inspection technologies, you can inspect every label as it is printing and avoid critical labeling errors that can cost you time and money.
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By using variable counters to organize, count, and trace your labeled products, your labeling process can become more efficient. In this blog, learn about variable counters and how to use them in your barcode labeling environment.
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Compliance labeling is critical for manufacturers and distributors in many industries. Managing compliance labeling doesn’t need to cause headaches when you use a robust and reliable enterprise labeling system. Following these key principles will set you up for compliance labeling success.
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Reports show that the global cannabidiol market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21.2% from 2021 to 2028. Regulation is definitely the next step to take as hemp products are taking the world by storm.
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How three different medical device companies implemented security and traceability into their labeling process.
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As 2020 comes to a close, it’s time to look forward to 2021. Let’s take a look at five major manufacturing trends that, while undeniably accelerated by the events of 2020, will hold true into 2021 and beyond. For each trend, we’ll dive into ways labeling will evolve in 2021 to support manufacturing.
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One of manufacturing's biggest fears is a product recall - not only because of the potential for bad PR, but because of the wasted product, money, time, and potential safety risks for the users of their products.
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The medical device industry is one of the most highly regulated industries out there.
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When it comes to the food and beverage industry, it is incredibly important to have the best label software in place to ensure efficiency, stability, and peace of mind throughout the supply chain.
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Lately, there’s been quite the buzz around the European Union Medical Device Regulation or better known as, EU MDR. The EU MDR is a priority for all companies in the medical device industry that distribute products in the EU and will officially take effect on May 26, 2021. This regulation has more need for data management and complex assessment procedures than the regulation it replaces (MDD – Medical Devices Directive).
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