On May 29, at the fourth session of the ninth session of the Council of the China Pesticide Industry Association, held in Yunnan, the China Pesticide Industry Association organized the drafting of the pesticide commodity two-code rules (draft for comments) to be released to the public. This rule is applicable to the information processing and exchange of commodities (goods, trade items, assets, locations, etc.) in all links of the pesticide logistics supply chain.

It is understood that the QR code of pesticide commodities consists of seven information elements:

The first is the enterprise code, which is derived from the enterprise code in the pesticide production approval certificate number and consists of five digits;

The second is the commodity code, which is assigned by the enterprise to a specific object classification and consists of 4 digits. The numbering rules are formulated by the enterprise;

The third is the packaging indicator. The packaging level 0 is the single product level. Usually, the default is 0, 1~9 is the packaging level;

The fourth is the ingredient code, which is represented by five English letters. The first two digits indicate the major categories of pesticides, and the last three digits indicate the specific effective ingredients. The component code of the compound preparation is replaced by the component code with high content. When the content is the same, the sequence is determined by the first letter of the English common name;

The fifth is the dosage form code, which is represented by the three-digit English abbreviation of pesticide dosage form. When the English abbreviation is 3 letters, the English abbreviation is directly used as the code, and when the English abbreviation is 2 letters, the English abbreviation+"0" is composed;

The sixth is the toxicity code, which is represented by a decimal number. 1 indicates acute toxicity, 2 indicates high toxicity, 3 indicates moderate toxicity, 4 indicates low toxicity, and 5 indicates slight toxicity. Medium toxicity (high toxicity of technical drug) is marked as medium toxicity, and low toxicity (high toxicity of technical drug) is marked as low toxicity;

Seven is the random serial number of goods. The serial number contains a continuous number, and the continuous number only contains numbers, which is represented by 15 decimal digits.

Li Zhonghua, Secretary-General of China Pesticide Industry Association, said that the two-dimensional code of pesticide commodities provides the unique identification of pesticide industry in China for pesticide commodity objects, and one two-dimensional code only identifies one entity object. In addition, the QR code of pesticide commodities is also simple, scalable, confidential and safe.

Source: Pesticide Industry Network