Traceability of food packs is always a number one concern within the fast-paced industry of consumables, and it’s not because the government wants to trace a batch of candy wrappers back to the chocolate eaters and solve the obesity epidemic once and for all… No… It’s purely for safety reasons, and from the business end, liability reasons. Within the consumable industry, it is a universal standard to indicate use-by dates, best before dates and batch numbers on product tins, cartons, packages etc. in order to sustain control over distribution and consumption should any problems arise within the product’s shelf life. There is no phantom like moral to the story here, the message is lucid; businesses in the consumables sector cannot afford to be held liable for product batch sub-standards on the basis of their own marking equipment not being up to speed.


Standards apply to all businesses who manufacture goods… Within the coding and marking industry, having state of the art labeling technology creates a self-sufficient QA process, where you can rest assured that the batch of products you are stocking the supermarket shelves are of the most legible quality.


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When Gower Foods Ltd., a British food and drink packer, helped overcome the problem of poor quality product coding by installing inkjet printers from Markem-Imaje across all four of its packaging lines, it no longer felt the underlying threat of a product recall disaster with illegible batch numbers across the company’s product range.


Since the entrenchment of Markem-Imaje machinery within Gower Foods Ltd. there has a sound resolution reached in attaining an exceptional level of marking quality across the entire food and drink inventory, All of our Markem-Imaje coders have been totally reliable and the quality of the codes is far superior – Jon Lewis, Managing Director.