Organic SKUs

 How do you tell organic produce apart from commercial produce?

I was cleaning out some old files and I found some brief notes I jotted down about how to know from the SKU ( barcode ).

  • conventionally farmed produce has an item-dependent, fixed, 4-digit numbering system (ex. bananas are #4011)
  • organic produce is marked by 5-digit SKU beginning with the number 9 (#94011)
  • genetically modified produce is marked by 5-digit SKU beginning with the number 8 (#84011)

HTH

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