UNSPSC 41141818: Lecithin

In this classification, this entry connotes a substrate made of Lecithin that is used in clinical chemistry testing.

UNSPSC 41141818 Lecithin is a Commodity code with minimal recent procurement activity aligned to its abstract definition. The recent opportunities tagged to this code show no purchases of lecithin itself — a food emulsifier and ingredient commonly sourced by food service operations, school nutrition programs, and institutional cafeterias. Instead, the state and local solicitations in the dataset describe laboratory consumables, diagnostic reagents, and scientific instrumentation including respiratory pathogen detection kits, culture media, solid phase extraction disks, gas chromatography supplies, genome sequencing reagents, and forensic analytical chemicals. The mismatch indicates either systematic tagging error across multiple jurisdictions or a data artifact; the code appears dormant or mislabeled for practical procurement purposes.

Activity clusters in Texas (Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Department of State Health Services), Mississippi (Mississippi State Department of Health), California (State of California), and Philadelphia (City of Philadelphia), with the Texas agencies posting the bulk of recent notices — most under the IFB vehicle with response deadlines in February through June 2026. Representative solicitations include the Texas HHSC's IFB HHS0017272 (Consumables Respiratory Panel Kits for MiSeq Instrumentation, due May 19, 2026), the Mississippi State Department of Health's sole-source procurement for Clear Labs and Illumina sequencing reagents (objection deadline May 14, 2026), and the City of Philadelphia's micro-purchase for Clean Thru Extraction Columns (due May 30, 2026). These opportunities range from $35,050 to $393,668 in estimated value and span public health laboratory operations, food safety testing, wastewater surveillance, and forensic analysis — none of which align to lecithin as a commodity. Firms considering this code should verify current tagging practices with state procurement offices before committing business development resources.