What's the difference between supervision codes and commodity barcodes

The 13-digit commodity barcode (currently mainly EAN-13/8) applied to retail commodities is a non-mandatory standard published by international organizations, and it is mainly used for POS scanning settlement, which can't distinguish the true from the false and record the product quality, can't realize product circulation tracking, and is not suitable for products with complex prices such as jewelry and agricultural materials or not sold in supermarkets.

the supervision code is a product identification stipulated by China, and it is a code. It can supervise the whole process of product production, circulation and consumption, realize the functions of product authenticity judgment, quality traceability, recall management and whole process tracking, and can conveniently assign codes to special products such as jewelry and agricultural materials.

supervision code and supervision network

supervision network endows each product with a unique electronic supervision code, realizes "one product with one code" management, collects the dynamic information such as production, circulation and consumption of the products corresponding to the supervision code into the database in real time, and establishes an electronic file for the government to realize quality supervision from the source, track and trace the market through a seamless network covering the whole country, a super-large database supporting trillions of products of millions of enterprises and a professional customer service center. Finally, the electronic supervision chain of industrial products from raw materials entering the factory, production and processing, factory sales to after-sales service was established, and the electronic supervision chain of food from planting and breeding, production and processing, circulation and sales to catering consumption was established, which provided an information technology platform for establishing the quality traceability and accountability system of product quality and food safety, and established an electronic supervision network of product quality covering the whole society.