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| 1 | 1 | # Food/Beverage <!--category--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Food/Beverage | |
| 5 | 5 | gpc_code: 50000000 | |
| 6 | 6 | gpc_level: segment | |
| 7 | 7 | gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026 | |
| 8 | 8 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 9 | + | ||
| 10 | + | ## Meta <!--meta--> | |
| 11 | + | title: Food/Beverage (GPC segment 50000000) | |
| 12 | + | description: The GS1 Global Product Classification segment above the food and drink bricks, its 27 families and how a product's brick code leads back to it. | |
| 13 | + | <!--/meta--> | |
| 14 | + | ||
| 15 | + | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 16 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 17 | + | | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 18 | + | | gpc | https://gpc-browser.gs1.org/ | GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) | 2026-09-12 | GS1 | registry | | | | | | | | |
| 19 | + | | how-gpc-works | https://www.gs1.org/standards/gpc/how-gpc-works | GS1: How Global Product Classification (GPC) works | 2026-09-12 | GS1 | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 20 | + | | nutshell | https://www.gs1.nl/media/sfpiaxye/gpc-in-a-nutshell_jun24-def.pdf | GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg: GPC in a nutshell, version 2.0, June 2024 | 2026-09-12 | GS1 Netherlands | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 21 | + | <!--/references--> | |
| 22 | + | ||
| 23 | + | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 24 | + | Food/Beverage is a segment of the GS1 Global Product Classification and the top of the branch that the food and drink pages here sit under. A segment is the highest level of the classification and is defined as a particular industry.[^how-gpc-works] Publication 286 gives this segment no definition text of its own, unlike many of the bricks below it, so none is reproduced here.[^gpc] | |
| 25 | + | ||
| 26 | + | Below the segment the hierarchy runs through family and class to the brick, which is the level products are actually classified against. The three upper layers exist only to reach the right brick and are not communicated through the GS1 data pool, which is why a product page carries a brick code and never this one.[^nutshell] The chain is easiest to see worked through: the brick Drinks Flavoured - Ready to Drink (10000201) sits in the class Non Alcoholic Beverages - Ready to Drink (50202300), in the family Beverages (50200000), in this segment.[^gpc] | |
| 27 | + | ||
| 28 | + | Publication 286 divides the segment into 27 families, among them Beverages (50200000), Milk/Butter/Cream/Yogurts/Cheese/Eggs/Substitutes (50130000), Bread/Bakery Products (50180000), Confectionery/Sugar Sweetening Products (50160000), Meat/Poultry/Other Animals (50240000), Prepared/Preserved Foods (50190000) and Insects Edible (50400000).[^gpc] GPC is republished twice a year, in May and November, and users are given six months to move their systems to a new version.[^nutshell] | |
| 29 | + | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Food/Beverage <!--category-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Food/Beverage
gpc_code: 50000000
gpc_level: segment
gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
<!--/identity-->