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Retail (UPC/EAN/GS1) · since 1977

EAN-8

Small retail packages outside North America

A short EAN for packages too small for an EAN-13. Numbers are issued individually by GS1 offices because there are so few of them.

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At a glance

Introduced: 1977
Created by: European Article Numbering Association (now GS1)
Characters: Digits 0–9
Length: 8 digits (7 data + check)
Check: Mod 10 (weights 3,1)
Capacity: 7 data digits

Example: `96385074`

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