UNSPSC 50434816: Dried organic shiitake mushrooms

The variety of organic mushrooms known as organic shiitake mushrooms that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50434816 Dried organic shiitake mushrooms (Commodity) does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—specialty fungi for food service—diverges sharply from the recent opportunities tagged to it, which overwhelmingly solicit broad grocery, produce, and prepared-food procurement for school districts, corrections departments, and municipal child nutrition programs. The single opportunty that approaches the code's scope is a dried-bean solicitation (pinto and red beans for Oregon Department of Corrections), which represents legumes rather than mushrooms and suggests possible miscoding in the source systems.

State and local procurement under this code, based on available records, shows no active demand for dried organic shiitake mushrooms. School districts in Virginia, Missouri, Georgia, and Texas; the Oregon Department of Corrections; the Illinois state procurement office; and the City of Edinburg, Texas, are currently soliciting food service supplies across dozens of line items spanning proteins, produce, dairy, grains, beverages, and prepared entrees, but none have tagged shiitake mushrooms or specialty fungi to their solicitations. Practitioners pursuing this code should verify that tagged opportunities reflect genuine demand for the commodity rather than cataloging errors, and should expect limited near-term activity until state and local nutrition programs or institutional kitchens explicitly bid specialty mushroom products as line items within broader food service RFPs or ITBs.