1. Marking device for marking containers, for example, in the food industry, said marking device comprising: at least one device for receiving measured feature data of a container and/or one or more container configurations, where said measured feature data is determined by a measuring device and where said measured feature data relates to at least one criterion of several criteria which said container and/or said one or more container configurations do not satisfy; at least one device for creating marking data based on said measured feature data, where said marking data can be created such that it is indicated which of said several criteria said container and/or said one or more container configurations do not satisfy; and at least one device for physically applying at least one marking onto said container, where said at least one marking is based on said marking data.