Our Bar Code Identification - Coffee Naming Convention
We believe in "Truth in Labeling" and that high-value coffee should be easily identifiable and traceable to source.
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) sets the standards for labeling coffee bags. The standard labels are called “marks” and they are usually stenciled onto the bag. There are three groups of characters in the ICO labeling system: the first is a country code, the second is the producer or exporter’s number, and the last is the lot number for that particular producer or exporter. Lot numbers are sequential and start over each harvest year.
The traditional ICO Marks are insufficient for high-value coffee as they carry no information as to the type of coffee, it's detailed origin, or its quality. Together with our partners in Mexico we've developed an extended green coffee marking and labeling system to better inform our customers and support complete traceability to source for every bag of coffee with origin in Terruño Nayarita.
Our bar code labels allow us to track coffee from each grower to each of our roaster customers. We developed this unique system in conjunction with our warehouse partner, Pacific Distribution, Inc.
We add seven alphanumeric characters in three groups to the usual ICO charcter set to provide detailed information about the coffee in each bag. The three groups of characters refer to the detailed ORIGEN, the PROCESS/ID, and the physical DESCRIPTION of the coffee, respectively. The labels are sewn into the bags when they are sealed at the dry mill. Our customers have access to the tracking database on the website.
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) sets the standards for labeling coffee bags. The standard labels are called “marks” and they are usually stenciled onto the bag. There are three fields in the ICO labeling system: the first is a country code, the second is the producer or exporter’s number, and the last is the lot number for that particular producer or exporter. Lot numbers are sequential and start over each harvest year.
We add seven alphanumeric characters to the usual ICO charcter set to provide detailed information about the coffee in each bag. The information is "encoded" in these additional "adder" characters. For example, the fields in our adder characters for the bar code above are shown below:
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The International Coffee Organization (ICO) sets the standards for labeling coffee bags. The standard labels are called “marks” and they are usually stenciled onto the bag. There are three fields in the ICO labeling system: the first is a country code, the second is the producer or exporter’s number, and the last is the lot number for that particular producer or exporter. Lot numbers are sequential and start over each harvest year.
