UNSPSC 50592703: Dried Non GMO chinese celery

The variety of Non GMO celery known as Non GMO chinese 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 50592703 Dried Non GMO chinese celery is a Commodity code that nominally refers to a single dried vegetable product, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code show little activity directly aligned with the code's stated scope. The most recent opportunities tagged to this code span broad food-service procurement — school nutrition programs, senior meal services, institutional facility food supply, and child nutrition summer programs — that encompass hundreds of line items across fresh produce, packaged goods, prepared meals, and general grocery inventory rather than dried celery specifically. State and local buyers using this code include school districts (Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, Pascagoula-Gautier School District in Mississippi, Bridgeport Board of Education in Connecticut), county government (Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners in Florida), state health agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission), and city procurement offices (City of Bridgeport Department of Public Purchases). The actual purchasing activity centers on food-service contracting for institutional meal programs — school lunches, senior congregate and home-delivered meals, and facility food operations — where vendors must meet nutrition standards, food-safety certifications, and delivery logistics rather than supply of a specific dried vegetable commodity.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast and South — Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Connecticut, and Texas — with the largest identified opportunity being a three-year senior meal services contract estimated at $17,832,659.90 posted by Hillsborough County, Florida (ITB ITB2600289, due June 25, 2026). Other recent examples include the City of Bridgeport's grocery-items solicitation for the Board of Education (IFB BNB052266, due June 30, 2026, covering over 1,100 line items with Buy American requirements), Hancock County Schools' fresh produce procurement for the 2026-27 school year (IFB SN002-2027, due June 26, 2026), and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's food and consumable products request for an El Paso state facility (IFB HHS0017449, due July 13, 2026, with prior-period value of $1.5 million). The code shows persistent activity in school nutrition and institutional food service but exhibits a mismatch between the Commodity's nominal specificity (dried celery) and the breadth of the opportunities posted against it, signaling potential miscoding or a catch-all application by some procurement offices.