Does GS1 South Africa put my product information in my barcode symbol?

No. The GS1 barcodes licenced are considered blank and we do not encode the product information into the code. Your designers, upon taking your barcodes and products to them, will encode your barcode number & symbol and product information is retrieved from the GS1 GDSN network by your trading partners. Finally GS1 Activate allows you to generate symbols.