UNSPSC 50536301: Dried non GMO crimson red rhubarb

The variety of non GMO rhubarb known as non GMO crimson red rhubarb 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 50536301 Dried non-GMO crimson red rhubarb, a Commodity code, shows minimal direct procurement activity across recent state and local solicitations. The code nominally identifies a single dried-fruit ingredient, yet the recent opportunities block contains no solicitations explicitly requesting dried rhubarb or rhubarb products. Instead, the tagged opportunities span broad food-service procurement—school nutrition meal contracts, senior meal delivery, fresh produce supply, and grocery staples—where dried rhubarb, if it appears at all, would be one line item among hundreds in a master specification. The scope of actual purchasing under this code remains difficult to characterize from available data, as none of the posted solicitations name dried rhubarb, rhubarb products, or ingredient-level purchasing specifically. School districts and state nutrition agencies are the primary issuing bodies across the recent sample, but they solicit through consolidated grocery or fresh-produce RFPs and IFBs where individual commodity codes do not reflect procurement intent or line-item volume.

Recent opportunities show activity concentrated in Georgia, Connecticut, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, and Virginia, driven by school district nutrition programs and state health agencies. Representative solicitations include the Bridgeport Board of Education's grocery bid (City of Bridgeport Department of Public Purchases, IFB BNB052266, due June 30, 2026) covering over 1,100 line items across breakfast, produce, and snack categories; Hancock County Board of Education fresh produce solicitation (IFB #SN002-2027, due June 26, 2026) with 200 produce line items; Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 contract (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026) spanning schools and distribution warehouses; and Douglas County School System's food supply and distribution RFP (RFP 26-003, due February 18, 2026) with estimated annual spend of approximately $9,000,000 across 32 schools. Dried rhubarb procurement, if any, is embedded in these broad master contracts rather than solicited as a standalone commodity.