UNSPSC 50535368: Dried non GMO sweet september peaches

The variety of non GMO peaches known as non GMO sweet september peaches 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 50535368 Dried non GMO sweet september peaches is a Commodity code that nominally names a single dried-fruit product, but the recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code do not reflect dried peach procurement — instead, they span broad food-service contracting for school nutrition programs, institutional meal preparation and delivery, and cafeteria provisioning. The scope of work in the recent solicitations includes fresh produce, breakfast and lunch meal items, snacks, beverages, dairy, frozen goods, and related food-service consumables purchased through competitive sealed bids by school districts, county boards of education, county health and human services agencies, and state health and nutrition departments. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Pascagoula-Gautier School District in Mississippi, Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, and Bridgeport Board of Education in Connecticut) and county or state agencies responsible for nutrition services (Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners in Florida, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and the State of Georgia). None of the recent opportunities name dried peaches explicitly or in their scope detail; the code appears to be a misclassification or a catch-all tag applied to food-procurement contracts that span multiple product categories.

Recent activity clusters in the Southeast and includes the City of Bridgeport's June 2026 IFB for over 1,100 grocery line items supporting the National School Lunch Program with a contract term of July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027; Hancock County Board of Education's June 2026 IFB for fresh produce across 200-plus line items with delivery to three school sites and a July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 contract period; the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's June 2026 IFB for food and consumables at the El Paso State Supported Living Center with a historical annual value of $1.5 million and a September 1, 2026 contract start; and Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners' June 2026 ITB for senior meal preparation and delivery services with an estimated three-year value of $17.8 million. The State of Georgia and Pascagoula-Gautier School District also posted food and kitchen-product solicitations in May and April 2026, respectively. Given the consistent mismatch between the code name and actual procurement activity, this code shows limited relevance to dried-peach vendors unless the categorization error is corrected upstream at the issuing body.