UNSPSC 42295426: Surgical specimen collection traps or containers

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a specimen collection trap or container during a surgical procedure in a medical setting. US FDA regulates surgical specimen collection traps or containers under 21 CFR 866.3390 and under FDA product code LSL. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901890.

UNSPSC 42295426 Surgical specimen collection traps or containers (Commodity) shows minimal recent activity aligned with its nominal scope. The single concrete opportunity tied directly to the code is the City of Dallas's February 2026 informal solicitation (IFB) for Bac T Bottles—laboratory specimen collection containers for the Dallas Water Utilities department, due February 27, 2026. The remaining three recent opportunities posted under this code are substantially misaligned: Sourcewell's cooperative RFP for law enforcement equipment, Collier County's RFP for home-based senior care services, and the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System's RFPs for educational materials and supplies catalogs do not involve surgical or laboratory specimen collection equipment. The code appears to be capturing mislabeled or incorrectly tagged procurement records rather than the actual medical or laboratory supply chain for which it is intended.

No clear pattern of issuing-body concentration or geographic concentration emerges from the specimen-collection-specific opportunity alone. The Dallas water utilities purchase represents a single municipal department's routine consumables buy, with no evidence of statewide or multi-jurisdictional demand signals. The absence of repeat buyers, cooperative purchasing initiatives, or multiple state or regional solicitations under the accurate code scope indicates that the Commodity code carries limited near-term business development interest. The misalignment between code assignment and actual solicitation scope suggests procurement professionals should verify the correct taxonomy assignment and focus efforts on direct outreach to municipal water utilities departments, hospital systems, and clinical laboratories using channels other than UNSPSC code-based scanning.