UNSPSC 50537222: Dried non GMO nicoise olives

The variety of non GMO olives known as non GMO nicoise olives 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 50537222 Dried non-GMO nicoise olives is a Commodity code that captures a narrow specialty food item with minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities in the source are uniformly broad food service and nutrition contracts—school lunch programs, senior meal services, and institutional food distribution—none of which specify dried nicoise olives or similar specialty preserved items as line items or focus areas. The code itself names a single product, but state and local buyers posting in this period do not appear to be soliciting it as a standalone commodity or meaningful subset of their food buys; instead, they are procuring comprehensive grocery baskets, fresh produce, and meal services under wider UNSPSC families and classes that encompass multiple product categories.

No recent state and local opportunities specifically reference dried non-GMO nicoise olives or commodities at this tier. The posted solicitations—including a City of Bridgeport school lunch IFB (BNB052266), a Texas Health and Human Services fresh-food IFB (HHS0017449), and multiple school district RFPs for produce, groceries, and meal service from Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, and Mississippi—describe food procurement in aggregate line-item lists, many with 200 or more items, but do not isolate preserved olive products as a procured item. This code appears inactive in the current state and local market, or buyers are tagging broader food codes rather than this specific commodity when they do purchase such items.