Standards & Best Practices

The standards in this section were developed by the IDEA Standards Committee (ISC). If you have a need for new standards, white paper guidelines and edits/additions to existing standards, please complete the Standards Development Request Form and send to Mary Shaw. Each request will be carefully reviewed and considered for implementation by the committee.

You may search the standards by the standard type, file name, or by the applications in which they are associated.

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File NameLast ModifiedStandard TypeApplicationAccessType
05 - 1SYNC Data Requirements Guide DPv4.0.xls 01/07/08 Product Code Standards IRD Public MS Excel
CERICOMX_ExcelItemImportTemplate.xls 01/04/08 Data Content Standards IRD Public MS Excel
GS1 US Website 01/04/08 GS1 Standards IRD Public N/A
GS1 Canada Website 01/04/08 GS1 Standards IRD Public N/A
GS1 Website 01/04/08 GS1 Standards IRD Public N/A


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