UNSPSC 42321909: Humeral shells or sockets

in this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a humeral shell or socket in a surgical procedure in a medical setting. US FDA regulates Humeral shells or sockets under 21 CFR 888.3660 and under FDA product code KWS. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 902129.

UNSPSC 42321909 Humeral shells or sockets is a Commodity code showing minimal alignment between its nominal scope and recent state and local procurement activity. The code purports to cover orthopedic prosthetic components, yet the recent opportunities block contains only one record with tangential relevance — San Mateo Medical Center's RFP for orthopedic hardware removal and extraction system services, which addresses surgical instrumentation for implant removal rather than prosthetic shells or sockets themselves. The three remaining recent solicitations — California's furniture and casework RFB for an outpatient building, Sourcewell's law enforcement equipment cooperative RFP serving multiple Washington counties, and Klein ISD's career technical education materials RFP — fall entirely outside the prosthetic device category. State and local governments appear to use this code infrequently or with inconsistent tagging when they do solicit humeral prosthetic components.

The limited recent activity makes geographic and issuing-body characterization difficult. Of the four records present, only two touch California procurement (the furniture RFB from the State of California and the San Mateo County medical center RFP), with the remaining two representing Minnesota cooperative purchasing and Texas school district procurement respectively. None of the opportunities directly solicit humeral shells or sockets as named commodities. Firms evaluating this code should treat it as currently quiet for direct prosthetic component procurement and monitor for misaligned tagging when opportunities do appear under it — the San Mateo Medical Center RFP (solicitation 666002526252, due July 1, 2026) demonstrates that state and local health systems do procure orthopedic surgical services, but the code appears poorly matched to what is actually being bought.