Unlike proprietary or industry-specific codes, a universal barcode format is an open symbology standard—such as EAN-13, GS1-128, or GS1-compliant QR code—readable by any off-the-shelf scanner regardless of the operator in the supply chain.
Source: https://www.gs1.org/standards/barcodes
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