Being the curious guy I am, after playing around with the food prices yesterday, I wondered if there is a [free] source that allows entering a UPC code (perhaps by using your iPhone to scan a barcode) and pulling up the description of that item… (you’re getting ahead of me!)
So I started following the bread crumbs that ultimately led me to the “United Nations Standard Products and Service Code. Things that involve the whole world require a United Nations Agency to permit companies to create and sell products. the UNSPSC was created by the United Nations Development Programme [sic] in cooperation with Dun & Bradstreet.
“It is the most efficient, accurate and flexible classification system available today for achieving company-wide visibility of spend analysis, enabling procurement to deliver on cost-effectiveness demands and allowing full exploitation of electronic commerce capabilities.”
50335827 is the code for ” Dried organic elephant heart plums”
Let – me – see … unsPC? PC from the UN? The UN’sPC? Something very suckish lurks in there somewhere.
What is the code for H2O?
You know, the stuff the EU says does not ‘hydrate’.
Wow… I found it.
50202301 is the code for ‘WATER’.
Not to be confused with:
50202310 = ‘spring or mineral water’
20131009 = ‘water based muds’
Hmm… I thought mud was ‘soil’ (11111501) and water?
Or, is it a combo of ‘dirt and soil’ (11111500) and water?
This is really confusing. How do I specify just plain mud?
First you’ll need to find some entity that wants to buy your mud (with a loan from the IMF of course).
Hahahahaha! Too good!