UNSPSC 50594102: Dried Non GMO bay leaves

The variety of Non GMO herbs known as Non GMO bay leaves 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 50594102 Dried Non GMO bay leaves is a Commodity code that describes individual food ingredients, specifically dried bay leaves without genetic modification, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code show minimal direct relevance to the code's specific scope. Of the opportunities tagged with this code, only one involves actual food procurement that might include dried herbs and spices as component ingredients: the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's supplemental food and consumable products solicitation (HHS0016792 and HHS0017449) for state hospitals and state supported living centers, which encompasses 210 line items across multiple food categories. The remaining opportunities—including the Illinois weekly food order, Georgia kitchen products procurement, Texas criminal justice cafeteria foods, Fairfax County Public Schools grocery supply, Rockwood School District child nutrition services, and Douglas County School System food distribution—are broadly tagged institutional food service contracts rather than specific dried-ingredient or spice procurements. The code shows no clear pattern of state and local agencies soliciting dried bay leaves as a line item in isolation; instead, when bay leaves appear, they are embedded within comprehensive food service or commodity supply requests.

State and local issuing bodies include school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Douglas County School System), state health and human services agencies (Texas HHSC, state of Illinois), state departments (Georgia, Texas), and regional cooperative purchasing vehicles serving multiple school districts. Recent opportunities span Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, and Virginia, with the heaviest concentration in Texas (three separate HHSC and TDCJ solicitations) and Georgia (Douglas County School System RFPs covering 30 districts through cooperative purchasing). Representative recent solicitations include the Texas HHSC supplemental food procurement (HHS0017449, IFB, due July 13, 2026, with a prior-period historical value of $1.5 million) covering food and consumable products for state supported living centers statewide, and the Rockwood School District grocery items solicitation (CHILDNUTRITIONSERVICESGROCERYITEMS20262027, due April 29, 2026) encompassing over 900 line items for child nutrition services across a student enrollment of approximately 19,000. The mismatch between the code's specific commodity designation and the broad institutional food service nature of actual recent solicitations suggests limited targeted procurement activity for dried bay leaves as a discrete line item in state and local purchasing.