How to know if the milk products made in China or Taiwan

I checked a packet of vegetarian noodle I have from Taiwan and see that the first 3 digits of the code are "471" as indicated in the email below. However, the digits of a "made in China" Aztech Wireless broadband router I have, are "658".

According to How Stuff Works, the stripes of lines that you see in the photo below is known as Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code. A company called the Uniform Code Council (UCC) provides manufacturers permission to enter their UPC system to apply for their own six-digit manufacturer identification number which they have to pay an annual fee for.

To have an idea what the numbers printed at the side of the bars mean, take a look at article, "How is the Price Determined?".

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From My InBox:

With more and more milk products from China and Taiwan having problem. We really got to check where the things are produced. Here is a way to differentiate Taiwan made products and China made products : by looking at first three digits of its Bar Code.


If the 1st 3 digits are 690, 691 or 692 - China made

If the 1st 3 digits are 471 – Taiwan made