UNSPSC 50527018: Non GMO jujube

The variety of non GMO fruit known as non GMO jujube. This means that they are produced without the use of methods that genetically modify organisms by means that are not possible under natural conditions. Such methods include cell fusion, microencapsulation and macro-encapsulation, and recombinant DNA technology (including gene deletion, gene doubling, introducing a foreign gene, and changing the positions of genes when achieved by recombinant DNA technology).

Traditional methods of breeding, conjugation, fermentation, hybridization, in vitro fertilization, or tissue culture are considered to be non-GMO.

UNSPSC 50527018 Non GMO jujube is a Commodity code that nominally names a specific fruit variety, but recent state and local solicitations show virtually no procurement activity aligned with this code. The source contains seventeen recent school nutrition opportunities across Georgia, Texas, and Florida posted between February and July 2026, yet none solicits jujubes—GMO or otherwise. Instead, these school districts and independent school systems are sourcing conventional fresh produce categories: apples, bananas, berries, broccoli, carrots, citrus, lettuce, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, and eggs. One Madison Metropolitan School District solicitation (RFB 4162, posted July 8, 2026, due July 29, 2026) explicitly specifies petite bananas with precise ripeness and size requirements, but this is a mainstream commodity with no connection to jujube procurement. The code shows a fundamental mismatch between its nominal scope and actual state and local buying patterns in school nutrition.

The issuing bodies in the dataset are exclusively school districts and school systems—Madison Metropolitan, Hancock County Board of Education, Bartow County Schools, Bulloch County Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Muscogee County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Glynn County Board of Education, McAllen Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, Douglas County Schools, Early County Board of Education, and Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa—spanning Georgia, Texas, and Florida. These jurisdictions solicit fresh produce through RFPs, RFBs (Requests for Bid), and IFBs (Invitations for Bid) with response dates typically 4–8 weeks from posting. Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia, with nine of seventeen opportunities from that state; Texas and Florida each represent secondary markets. The single opportunity closest to the code's name is Madison's petite banana RFB 4162, but jujubes do not appear in any specification sheet or scope document across the dataset. This code warrants a skip unless your firm has evidence of jujube demand outside the recent school nutrition vertical or in other state and local procurement channels not captured here.