Are the description and price of the item included in the bar code?
Not true, in general. The bar code simply represents the number shown below it, which in turn simply identifies the item uniquely. All the information about the product is held on a computer database. The only exceptions are the EAN-13 and UCC-12 Numbers for retail Variable Measure Trade Items and coupon numbers, which include the price or measure of the item or value of the coupon.
