Having a nice smile can go a long way, some even say that it can change your life and who better to know about that than WSD Labs USA; they’re a top-rated global OEM manufacturer, distributor and wholesale supplier of teeth whitening products. They’re experts in creating customized smile solutions and they make it accessible for others to provide them as well.
Topics: Product Identification, Label coding, Thermal inkjet, coding and marking, Success Story, Product Recall, SNEED-JET Titan, SNEED-JET Titan T6 Handheld, #KeepCodingSimple
Nowadays, it would seem that the majority of food is genetically modified, grown around pesticides, or filled with preservatives, but Hidden Stream Farm has made it their mission to provide clean, healthy, pasture-raised livestock. Larger farms often use hormones to speed up an animal’s growth, to keep up with demand, but that’s not the case here. Hidden Stream Farm believes that, “healthy animals make healthy people,” and as a result they’ve dedicated their farm to producing chicken, beef, and pork with no chemicals, hormones, or antibiotics.
Topics: Traceability, Product Identification, Thermal inkjet, batch coding, date code, Success Story, SNEED-JET, Expiration Date, SNEED-JET Titan T6 Handheld, #KeepCodingSimple, SNEED-JET Printer
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right? Well, this mother-son duo did just that in the Summer of 2020 and ended up with a thriving freshly-squeezed, fruit-infused lemonade that the world just seemed to love. However, with the business growing at an exponential rate and Dillonade’s expanding into the supermarket industry, Tiffany Green, CEO of Dillonades, decided it was time to reach out to the professionals here at Sneed Coding Solutions, Inc.
Topics: Traceability, Product Identification, lot coding, batch coding, thermal inkjet coding, Success Story, SNEED-JET, SNEED-JET Titan, SNEED Coding Solutions, #KeepCodingSimple
Product packaging and coding allows for manufacturers, retailers, and consumers to get all the necessary information about a product. This is one of the many reasons why product and packaging coding matters. For more on this topic and additional reasons behind the importance of coding, read the material provided below.
Topics: Consumer Protection, Food Recall, Inkjet Coding, Quality Assurance, Traceability, Product Identification, Date coding, Label coding, Bottle Coding, Case Coding, Bar code, lot coding, coding and marking
As a business owner in the food industry, one has to be prepared for potential recalls due to manufacturing errors, specifically when it comes to failures in allergen control and labeling mistakes. Identifying these issues allows for companies to create and implement preventative measures in their supply chain. Read the information provided below to get a better idea of the common allergen control failures and labeling mistakes, as well as ideas on how to prevent these issues from occurring.
Topics: Consumer Protection, Quality Assurance, Product Identification, Label coding
Imagine a world without bar codes: there would be no way to track products or easily do inventory. That chaos you’re imagining is exactly what caused two inventors to design the bar code. For a quick glimpse into the brief history of the bar code, continue reading below.
Topics: Consumer Protection, Traceability, Product Identification, Box Coder, Case Coding, Box Coding, Bar code
As a food production business, there are mandatory elements that must be present in your production line for you to properly produce and package your food products. A date code printer is one of them. However, how do you know which date code printer is the one for the job? Well, you have come to the right place. Below is detailed information regarding exactly how to choose the right date code printer for food production to hopefully help you make the right decision for your production line!
Topics: Coding & Marking, Consumer Protection, Inkjet Coding, Quality Assurance, Traceability, Product Identification, Date coding, Bottle Coding, TIJ, continuous inkjet, CIJ, Case Coder, Box Coder, Case Coding, Box Coding
No matter what business or industry you’re in, you’re going to face challenges. However, there are always things you can do to deal with those challenges. An example of how you can prepare for packaging challenges in particular is buying and using a portable handheld printer. For further explanation on how a portable handheld printer can solve repackaging challenges, continue reading below.
Topics: Coding & Marking, Traceability, Product Identification, Handheld printer, Handheld inkjet, Portable coder, Portable printer, Thermal inkjet, TIJ
Topics: Coding & Marking, Inkjet Coding, Product Identification, Portable coder, Portable printer, Thermal inkjet, TIJ, Case Coder, Box Coder, Case Coding, Box Coding
Once the manufacturing process ends and the product is prepared for distribution, printing batch number or lot number, a component of product traceability, is one of the ways for manufacturers to exercise control in case the product is subjected to certain manufacturing issues such as contamination or failure of the product quality of a batch.
Various regulatory boards such as the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have instituted regulations and guidelines directing food manufacturers to include general safety and traceability information to ensure that the product is safe and to facilitate organized product recall when necessary.
What is a batch or lot number?
According to the Code of Federal Regulations of the Food and Drug Administration, ¹“lot number or batch number can be any distinctive combination of letters, numbers or symbols, where the history of manufacture, processing, packaging, holding and distribution of batch or lot of drug product or other material can be determined.”
How is a batch number or lot number printed?
Batch numbers should be printed directly on the product’s primary packaging or on the labels at the end of the manufacturing process. To print a batch number it is important to understand the substrate of the packaging or labels where it must be printed. This is to ensure that the print will adhere to the packaging from holding the product in the warehouse to distribution in various shelves in the market. Maplejet, a Canadian industrial inkjet manufacturer, offers reliable and simple solutions to print batch number or lot number in any types of materials through Hx Nitro thermal inkjet printer.
Why is Hx Nitro best for batch coding?
Hx Nitro thermal inkjet printer has built-in technology to make designing and printing batch number easy and simple for small to large manufacturing industries. It allows the use of personal smartphones or any smart devices to communicate with the printer through its built-in Wi Fi module. This provides operators an easy and convenient way to design the message, set up the correct print parameters for each message, and monitor the status of printers in the production line.
The printer can be mounted on many types of packaging lines. This flexibility gives the Hx Nitro an advantage to print batch number or lot number on bottles, packs or even onto cartons. There are also different types of ink available and color options to print on certain materials.
For consumers, batch numbers printed on the packaging may be just additional information required for a product to pass the government's guidelines and regulations, but it is actually an important part of the whole product distribution cycle to ensure consumer food safety.
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Topics: Coding & Marking, Consumer Protection, Inkjet Coding, Brand Protection, Quality Assurance, Traceability, Supply Chain, Product Identification, Date coding, Label coding, Can Coding, Bottle Coding, Pharmaceutical, Thermal inkjet, TIJ, MapleJet, Hx Nitro
