UNSPSC 50112026: Horse, processed without additions

Products from animals of the species Equus caballus (domestic horse) that have been subject to one or more further manufacturing processes such as being cooked, dried, cured, ground, or reformed. Product additions such as an injected solution, marinade, sauce, seasoning, dry coating, stuffing, or filling are not present. Lead attributes: 1/ Refrigeration state 2/ Shape/Form 3/ Boneless Claim 4/ Source 5/ Level of Cooking 6/ Non-thermal Preservation 7/ Mechanical Processing 8/ Quality level 9/ Organic 10/ Religious law suitability claim 11/ Pack type

UNSPSC 50112026 Horse, processed without additions is a Commodity code that does not see active procurement among state and local governments in the recent record. The category nominally describes processed horse meat products, but none of the 26 state and local solicitations posted between January and June 2026 in the source material match this scope. Recent opportunities across the procurement jurisdictions—state departments (Oregon DOC, Texas HHSC, Georgia DJJ, Nevada DHHS), counties (Barrow, Douglas, Henry, Liberty, Early, Fairfax), and school districts—focus on chicken, turkey, pork, ground poultry, beef, and processed breakfast meats for correctional facilities, youth detention centers, and school nutrition programs. Horse meat does not appear in any recent IFB, ITB, RFP, or RFQ from these issuing bodies.

The apparent mismatch between the code and actual procurement activity suggests either a rare or non-existent market for processed horse meat in state and local contracting, or a classification error in the source tagging. Business development professionals should verify whether this code continues to reflect actual buying patterns in their target jurisdictions before allocating resources to pursuit. The code shows no geographic concentration, no representative recent opportunities, and no identifiable issuing-body pattern—simply silence in the market during the six-month observation window.