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Enabling Success for Canadian Cannabis Stakeholders

No matter what your role in the cannabis industry, GS1 standards can streamline operations, improve safety, increase trust and provide visibility for all stakeholders across the supply chain.

Licensed Producers of Cannabis or Cannabis-Related Products

What You Need to Know

  • The Cannabis Community has selected GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) and GS1 barcodes for product identification and traceability in all provinces.
  • Providing standardized bilingual product data using GS1 Canada’s centralized data management solution for product listings, New Item Setup Opens in a new window ensures your wholesale distributors and retailers have easy access to important cannabis-specific details, such as cannabinoid potency, terpene profiles, species, and net content.
  • Sharing standardized bilingual product images through GS1 Canada supports compliance with the Canadian cannabis industry, including provincial jurisdictions, wholesale distributors, and major retailers.
  • GS1 Canada’s Recall solution, available with Individual and Basic subscriptions and through New Item Setup registration, automatically populates exact product data and images in standardized product recall notifications, ensuring that only the recalled products, batches, or lots are being removed from the supply chain.

To meet these requirements and unlock these benefits, you will need to become a GS1 Canada subscriber.

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Resources for Licensed Producers

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Retailers and Wholesale Distributors

Retailers and wholesale distributors need a trusted partner to improve supply chain efficiency and ensure product integrity in retail.

What You Need to Know

  • Efficiently access the accurate, bilingual product data you need across multiple licensed producers, brands and products lines from a single, centralized place.
  • Access to standardized, bilingual product images in one place streamlines development of instore advertising and online content.
  • Ensure supply chain traceability through licensed and globally unique product identification numbers (GS1 GTINs) providing confidence through product and brand owner authentication.

To access these benefits, you will need to become a GS1 Canada subscriber.

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Resources for Retailers and Wholesale Distributors

Canadian Regulators and Jurisdictions

GS1 Canada offers tools and standards to help regulators maintain visibility over cannabis products across the supply chain.

What You Need to Know

  • Unique identification and authentication of all cannabis products across the global supply chain helps combat the illicit market.
  • GS1 Canada’s community management process enables key stakeholders to define and implement mandatory data attributes, ensuring cannabis licensed producers are meeting data and reporting requirements.
  • Easy access to trusted and detailed product data at every stage helps improve supply chain transparency and consumer safety.

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Resources for Canadian Regulators and Jurisdictions

Solution Providers

Solution providers supporting the cannabis industry can benefit from GS1 standards by enabling better data integration and seamless interoperability.

What You Need to Know

  • Whether you’re involved in packaging, scanning, printing, software development, or logistics, GS1 standards help ensure compliance, efficiency, and scalability for your cannabis business clients.

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