UNSPSC 50405906: Irish moss

The variety of sea vegetables known as irish moss

UNSPSC 50405906 Irish moss, a Commodity code, sits dormant in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities block does not name a single state or local solicitation actually seeking irish moss or seaweed ingredients. Over two dozen fresh produce and food service bids posted between February and July 2026 span school districts, detention facilities, and municipalities across Texas, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri—yet none reference irish moss, carrageenan, or the seaweed-based ingredients the commodity code nominally covers.

The code shows no actionable activity. The opportunities that carry UNSPSC tags in this market are school nutrition programs, institutional food service (prisons, senior centers, Head Start facilities), and municipal child nutrition services sourcing fresh produce, frozen vegetables, staple groceries, and prepared foods under codes aligned with commodity fruit, vegetable, and food product lines—not specialty hydrocolloid or thickening agents. If state and local procurement bodies are buying irish moss under this code, the activity is either absent from recent notice filings or tagged under a different UNSPSC family. No pursuit signals are present; monitor the code only if your firm has active relationships with institutional food service operations that might specify seaweed-derived ingredients in their procurement.