UNSPSC 50535020: Dried non GMO kona oranges

The variety of non GMO oranges known as non GMO kona oranges 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 50535020 Dried non-GMO kona oranges is a Commodity code that sees minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The source contains one recent state or local solicitation nominally tagged with this code—the City of Bridgeport Department of Public Purchases' June 2026 grocery items RFP for the Bridgeport Board of Education—but that opportunity spans over 1,100 line items across breakfast items, cereals, baked goods, frozen products, condiments, seasonings, vegetables, fruits, dairy, snack items, beverages, and meat products with no mention of dried kona oranges or any dried citrus specialty items. The remaining eleven opportunities in the source dataset address fresh produce, comprehensive grocery supply, meal preparation and delivery, and other food-service categories but contain no reference to dried non-GMO kona oranges or products matching this code's nominal scope. The mismatch between the code designation and the actual goods being solicited suggests this code receives little to no targeted procurement activity at the state and local level in the current environment.

The absence of relevant recent opportunities makes geographic concentration and issuing-body characterization uninformative. Dried specialty citrus products do not appear in school nutrition bids, state or county food service RFPs, senior meal programs, or commodity procurement across the jurisdictions represented in the dataset—Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. A business development professional evaluating pursuit under this code should treat it as dormant for state and local contracting purposes unless the target customer base operates specialty food programs outside the standard school nutrition, senior services, or general institutional food-service categories documented here.