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With the newly integrated ScanRank, barcoo shows you how often a product has been scanned in comparison with others. When you use it, you can find out which ranking your favorite beer has or which product is the top scan in the drinks category.

In this way barcoo not only provides information, but entertainment as well. The next time you’re in a group, pick up any old product and have everybody guess how many times the product has been scanned. Then use barcoo to scan it yourself and whoever was closest to that number is the winner! During their most recent outing, the barcoo team members played that game to help make the wait at a Mexican restaurant go by faster. The question was: where does Corona stand in barcoo’s ScanRank? There was a wide range of guesses – from 10 to 100 scans – and in the end, the right answer was 45! The prize for the correct answer was another bottle of Corona.

Give our little game a try with your friends: scan drinks, sweets, or books and find out who’s the barcoo expert of the group!

The recent food contamination scandal in Germany, where an animal feed additive has been found to contain dioxin, was reason enough for us to move quickly and add another function to barcoo: Users can now enter the code printed on the eggs to check whether they are contaminated or not. To get the information we’re using a list of codes published by the consumer agency Hamburg.

This is another step in our mission to bring transparency to consumers to make it easier for them to shop healthy and sustainable products.