UNSPSC 41171609: Selective culture medium

In this classification, a Selective culture medium connotes a device using Selective media allow certain types of organisms to grow, and inhibit the growth of other organisms. US FDA regulates Selective culture medium under 21 CFR 866.2360 and under FDA product code JSI.

UNSPSC 41171609 Selective culture medium is a Commodity code covering growth media formulated to support the cultivation of specific microbial populations while inhibiting others, used across public health, environmental testing, food safety, and clinical diagnostics laboratories operated by state and local governments. State and local buyers use these products in microbiology workflows — isolation of pathogens from clinical specimens, enumeration of indicator organisms in environmental or food samples, and confirmation testing in disease surveillance programs. Issuing bodies include state health departments, county public health laboratories, municipal water utilities, environmental agencies, and regional medical facilities operated under state or local authority. The code sees procurement activity across multiple jurisdictions as a routine consumable for laboratory operations rather than as a specialized or project-driven category.

The source provides no recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code. Without posted RFPs, RFQs, ITBs, or IFBs in the opportunities block, no geographic concentration, issuing-body pattern, or representative recent solicitation can be identified. Procurement under this code appears dispersed across routine laboratory supply channels — cooperative purchasing agreements, blanket orders, or standing contracts with clinical and environmental laboratory suppliers — rather than consolidated in visible competitive solicitations.