UNSPSC 50342606: Frozen etrog citrons

The variety of citrons known as etrog citrons that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50342606 Frozen etrog citrons is a Commodity code, and the recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows minimal alignment with its nominal scope. The solicitations tagged with this code overwhelmingly reflect broad grocery and food-service procurement for institutional and school nutrition programs—spanning frozen vegetables, fresh produce, ice cream, dairy, proteins, and staple food items—rather than the specialty frozen citrus product the code describes. State and local governments issuing under this code include Texas health and human services agencies, Georgia school districts, California county corrections, Missouri and Connecticut school districts, and the Oregon Department of Corrections. The issuing bodies range across state-level health and corrections departments, county school boards, municipal school systems, and special-purpose districts such as Head Start programs and cooperative buying organizations.

The representative recent opportunities reflect this mismatch between code and actual procurement. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission posted IFB HHS0017660 on July 13, 2026, seeking approximately 110 line items of groceries for Big Spring State Hospital with bids due July 27, 2026, spanning proteins, prepared foods, dairy, pantry staples, beverages, and packaging—none of which are frozen etrog citrons. The Bridgeport Board of Education issued IFB BID052266 in late June 2026 for over 1,100 line items of grocery items for school food service, including breakfast items, cereals, baked goods, frozen products, condiments, vegetables, fruits, dairy, snacks, beverages, and meats. Head Start of Greater Dallas posted IFB 26-GP on June 24, 2026 for approximately 32,409 cases of frozen foods, produce, and meat products to serve child care programs. The code shows no recent activity targeting frozen specialty citrus fruits, frozen etrog citrons specifically, or related narrow-scope procurement. The geographic spread of recent activity spans Texas, Georgia, Connecticut, Missouri, California, and Oregon, with concentrations in school district nutrition programs and state institutional food service. The mismatch between the code's formal commodity definition and the actual grocery-and-foodservice procurement it tags suggests this code may be misapplied systematically in state and local procurement systems, or the code itself has drifted from current buying patterns in the jurisdictions represented.