UNSPSC 50532000: Dried non GMO blackberries

The type of black or dark purple juicy but seedy edible aggregate fruit of various brambles of the rose family that has 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 50532000 Dried non-GMO blackberries (Class code) shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally addresses a single dried fruit commodity, but the recent opportunities tagged under this code span broad-based school nutrition, senior meals, and institutional food service procurement that bear no meaningful connection to dried blackberry supply specifically.

Recent state and local activity in the opportunities block includes school district grocery and fresh produce solicitations (Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 contract spanning 1,100+ line items; Hancock County Board of Education's fresh produce bid encompassing apples, berries, cruciferous vegetables, and melons; Bulloch County Board of Education's comprehensive school nutrition program procurement across bases, beverages, breakfast items, dairy, frozen goods, meats, and vegetables), institutional food service for state facilities and senior meal preparation and delivery, and packaged meal services for municipal events. None of these solicitations target dried non-GMO blackberries as a line item or narrow category. The misalignment suggests either a classification error in the source data or that procurement offices are tagging multi-item food service contracts with commodity-level UNSPSC codes that do not reflect the actual scope of work being bought. School districts posting under this code are sourcing fresh produce, dairy, proteins, and prepared meals for child nutrition programs that operate under federal Child Nutrition Program standards and Buy American requirements, not specialty or dried fruit items. Geographic spread includes Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools, City of Bridgeport), Texas (Health and Human Services Commission), Florida (Hillsborough County), Georgia (Bulloch County, Savannah-Chatham County, Douglas County), Mississippi (Pascagoula-Gautier School District), and Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools). No recent opportunities target dried blackberries or this commodity code as a procurement driver. Pursuit under this code without vendor-direct pre-bid outreach to confirm that individual school districts or food service authorities are actually sourcing dried non-GMO blackberries would likely be inefficient; the broader school nutrition and institutional food service contracts offer wider scope but do not isolate this specific ingredient category.