UNSPSC 50531505: Dried non GMO braeburn apples

The variety of non GMO apples known as non GMO braeburn apples that have been dried for preservation. 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 50531505 Dried non-GMO Braeburn apples is a Commodity code, but the recent opportunities dataset shows no state or local solicitations specifically requesting dried Braeburn apples or dried apples as a line item. The code appears misaligned with actual purchasing patterns in the sample block, which captures school nutrition, senior meal services, and general food supply contracts but does not isolate dried apple products. School districts and state nutrition programs documented here—Bridgeport Board of Education, Hancock County Schools, Douglas County School System, Fairfax County Public Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Meriden Public Schools, Bulloch County Board of Education, and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission—solicit fresh produce (including fresh apple varieties such as Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, and Honeycrisp), not dried variants. One Georgia IFB references fresh produce broadly without itemized detail, and another Georgia solicitation covers food supplies generally, but neither reveals dried-apple demand.

State and local food procurement in the recent window is dominated by school districts (K-12 and nutrition programs) and county or state health service agencies buying through nutrition-focused solicitations—RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs with response dates between late January and late June 2026. Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia (Douglas County, Bulloch County, Savannah-Chatham County schools; state-level fresh produce and food supply bids), Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools, City of Bridgeport), Florida (Hillsborough County), Texas (HHSC El Paso facility), Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools), and Mississippi (Pascagoula-Gautier School District), with scattered activity in other states. The absence of dried-apple line items in these contemporaneous solicitations suggests the code may see limited or no active state and local procurement volume, or that dried apples are bundled into broader commodity codes rather than tracked as a distinct purchased product. Pursuing this code without supporting evidence of recent dried-apple demand would require direct outreach to school district nutrition departments or state agricultural procurement offices to confirm whether this specific product is on active purchase lists.