UNSPSC 50595812: Dried Non GMO sea lettuce

The variety of Non GMO sea vegetables known as Non GMO sea lettuce 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 50595812 Dried Non GMO sea lettuce is a Commodity code. State and local governments have posted almost no procurement activity specifically under this code in recent months; the one opportunity nominally tagged with it—the City of Bridgeport's grocery-items solicitation for the Board of Education's Food & Nutrition Services Department—spans over 1,100 line items across breakfast items, cereals, baked goods, frozen products, condiments, seasonings, vegetables, fruits, dairy, snack items, beverages, and meat products, and does not identify dried sea lettuce as a line item or focus. The broader opportunities posted under related food-service and nutrition codes show school districts, county boards of education, state health and human services agencies, and county social-services departments sourcing institutional meals, fresh produce, packaged meal boxes, and senior nutrition services, but none of these solicitations surface dried sea lettuce as a specified or sought commodity. The code's nominal scope—specialty or niche marine vegetable products for institutional food service—does not align with the practical procurement activity in state and local nutrition contracting over the past five months.

Geographic posting across recent food-service and produce opportunities spans Connecticut, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi, driven primarily by school nutrition programs and aging services contracts. The sole opportunity plausibly tagged with this code—Bridgeport, Connecticut's June 2026 grocery RFP with a June 30, 2026 response date—carries the code but does not identify dried sea lettuce in the scope or any substantive opportunity for a specialty marine-vegetable supplier. Pursuit of this code should be considered low priority absent an explicit issuing-body tender or addendum that names dried sea lettuce as a line item or required product.