Cathy Woodruff reports in the Times Union today - “Gov. David Paterson on Wednesday proposed amending the expanded bottle law passed last month to eliminate the requirement for a New York-only UPC bar code on returnable containers.

Retailers, distributors and bottlers are vexed by the bar code mandate, now scheduled to take effect June 1. They say it would be virtually impossible to implement by June and would add costly complications to production and distribution systems.”

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