UNSPSC 50596866: Dried Non GMO yautia

The variety of Non GMO vegetable known as Non GMO yautia 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 50596866 Dried Non GMO yautia is a Commodity code that sits at the most granular level of the taxonomy, yet state and local procurement activity under this specific code shows no recent relevant opportunities. The source documents fourteen recent state and local solicitations tagged to this code, but examination reveals a fundamental mismatch: all fourteen opportunities are general school nutrition procurement, senior meal services, and food supply contracts that do not specify or request dried yautia as a line item. The City of Bridgeport's grocery RFP names over 1,100 line items spanning vegetables, fruits, grains, and proteins but does not list yautia. Hancock County Schools, Bulloch County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Douglas County Schools, Meriden Public Schools, and others all solicit fresh produce or comprehensive food supply across dozens of categories—apples, carrots, berries, leafy greens, potatoes—without reference to yautia or its dried form. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Hillsborough County, and City of Dallas solicitations similarly show no yautia specification in their food procurement scopes.

This code appears to be a categorization artifact that does not map to actual state and local purchasing. The opportunities posted under UNSPSC 50596866 instead reflect broad grocery and produce procurement across school nutrition programs, senior meal services, and institutional food supply contracts spanning Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi. Dried yautia does not appear as a requested item in any of the thirteen school district or county RFP/RFQ/IFB/ITB documents summarized, nor in the state or city food service contracts. Business development professionals evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for state and local government procurement purposes and verify categorization with issuing bodies before pursuing opportunities listed under this code number.