Free · Rule 19(1)(i)(w), Insecticides Rules
✓ Rules as amended to 3 June 2025 · checked 24 October 2026
Test your QR code free, in 10 seconds
Five items must be inside the QR code on every pesticide pack. Scan it, choose a photo or paste it: see what is there and what is missing. Nothing is uploaded.
QR code checker: does yours pass Rule 19?
Since 23 March 2023 the QR code on the retail pack must carry at least a unique identifier or GTIN, the batch number, the manufacturing date, the expiry date and a web link (Rule 19(1)(i)(w)). A code that only opens a web page is not enough, even if the page shows the batch and dates: they must be in the code itself. Scan your pack, choose a photo of it, or paste what the code contains. Nothing is uploaded: the check runs in your browser. If yours fails, make one that passes just below.
Make a QR code that passes
Fill in the details of one batch. You get a link that carries all five items and a QR code to print. Scanning it still opens your web page.
Print it at least 2 cm wide, dark on a light background, with a clear margin all round. The batch and dates change with every batch, so make a new code for each batch: on that batch’s label print run, or as a sticker or inkjet print at packing. Then scan the printed code with a phone: it must open your page with the full label and leaflet.
Want it made for you, as a print-ready PDF? The pesticide QR code generator makes one small code for each batch: it carries the identifier, batch and dates, and opens a page with the five Rule 19 items and your registration, crops and doses (Rs. 69 + GST, PDF and PNG, GST invoice).
Failed, or want to be sure?
Get a code that passes
One small code for each product and batch: it carries the identifier or GTIN, batch and dates, and opens a 2-page PDF with the five Rule 19 items, then your registration, crops and doses. Up to 100 products from one Excel sheet.
Rs. 69 + GST a product →Check the rest of the label
The 23 label items, the 14 primary-pack items and the leaflet by pack size, with a to-scale toxicity square calculator. Free.
Label checklist →Biostimulants?
The Ministry's letter of 24 September 2025 asks a biostimulant's QR code for different items: the Gazette notification, title, composition, crops and dosage.
Biostimulant QR code test →The free QR code test: short answers
What does the test check?
The five items Rule 19(1)(i)(w) of the Insecticides Rules, 1971 asks the QR code on a pesticide retail pack to contain: a unique identifier or GTIN (with its check digit, when it is a GTIN), the batch number, the date of manufacturing, the date of expiry (after the manufacturing date) and a web link. It reads GS1 barcodes, GS1 Digital Link web addresses and links that carry the items, such as the codes made by NanoKheti.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The camera picture, the photo and the text stay on your phone or computer: the test runs in your browser.
My code only opens our website, and the page shows the batch and dates. Does it pass?
No. The rule asks for the items in the QR code itself. A code that only opens a web page holds only the web link; the test shows what is missing and makes a code that carries all five.
If my code passes, is my label compliant?
Not by itself. The test reads only what is inside the QR code. The link must open your page with the entire label and leaflet, and the rest of the label must follow Rules 18 and 19 and your approved label. The free label checklist covers those, item by item.
Why does it matter?
An insecticide not packed or labelled as the Rules require can be treated as misbranded (Insecticides Act, 1968, section 3(k)), and selling a misbranded insecticide is an offence under section 29. The QR code is item (w) of the label (Rule 19(1)(i)(w)).
Who decides whether a pack complies?
The insecticide inspectors and the authorities under the Insecticides Act. This free test is a check, not a certificate, and NanoKheti is not a government body.
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A free check of what a QR code contains, written from Rule 19(1)(i)(w) of the Insecticides Rules, 1971, as amended to 3 June 2025. Your approved label and leaflet are what you must print. NanoKheti is not a government body; the Act, the Rules and the Gazette notifications are authoritative, and this page is not legal advice.