UNSPSC 50592701: Dried Non GMO celebrity celery

The variety of Non GMO celery known as Non GMO celebrity celery 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 50592701 Dried Non-GMO Celebrity Celery is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity captured in the source materials. The code nominally specifies a single dried vegetable product; however, the recent opportunities recorded under this code consistently involve broad-scope food service procurement spanning hundreds of line items across multiple produce categories, proteins, grains, dairy, and supplies rather than celery or any single commodity ingredient.

The recent opportunities show school districts, county boards of education, state health and human services agencies, and municipal governments soliciting comprehensive food supply contracts through IFBs and RFPs—Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut) issuing a 1,100-line-item grocery IFB due June 30, 2026; Hancock County Board of Education (Georgia) seeking fresh produce across 200 line items with bids due June 26, 2026; Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia) establishing a Master Grocery K-12 term contract due April 27, 2026; and Douglas County School System (Georgia) procuring fresh produce and eggs across 30 participating districts with an estimated $5.5 million annual spend through a cooperative-purchasing vehicle. Other issuers include state-level procurement (Georgia State and Texas Health and Human Services Commission), transit-adjacent senior nutrition services (Hillsborough County, Florida), and single-vendor meal delivery (City of Dallas). The geographic spread spans Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual procurement activity suggests either systematic miscoding by posting jurisdictions or that this particular commodity code captures a narrow ingredient line that state and local buyers rarely procure in isolation. Vendors should confirm with issuing bodies whether celery or similar dried produce items appear in the detailed line-item specifications of these opportunities before pursuing; the public-facing summaries do not isolate dried celery as a line item.