UNSPSC 50601815: Frozen Non GMO castor beans

The variety of Non GMO beans known as Non GMO castor beans that have been frozen 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 50601815 Frozen Non GMO castor beans is a Commodity code that nominally describes a specialized agricultural input, but the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it show little alignment with procurement activity for castor beans. Instead, the code's recent posting represents a data classification mismatch: the Georgia food supplies solicitation and school district nutrition procurements are for comprehensive meal-program ingredients — fresh produce, frozen foods, dairy, proteins, grains, and condiments — not castor beans or their derivatives. The actual buying activity under this code tag encompasses broad school nutrition and institutional food supply contracts, where food service distributors and produce vendors supply line-item quantities of produce, frozen items, eggs, and staple goods to support National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program operations across elementary, middle, and high schools.

School districts and centralized buying cooperatives dominate the issuing-body mix, with recent opportunities from the Early County Board of Education, City Schools of Decatur, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Rockwood R-VI School District, Douglas County School System, and Dallas Independent School District. Georgia and Missouri account for the most recent activity, with Texas represented as well. Representative recent opportunities include the Early County Board of Education's FY27 Food Bid (response due June 8, 2026) seeking line-by-line bids for approximately 300+ food items and 60 non-food supplies across three schools; Rockwood R-VI School District Child Nutrition Services' Grocery Items procurement for the 2026-27 school year (response due April 29, 2026) encompassing over 900 line items; Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 for Fresh Produce and Eggs serving 30 districts with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million for Area One (response due March 4, 2026); and Dallas Independent School District's various food products procurement for May 29, 2026 through May 28, 2027 delivery (response due April 2, 2026) covering individual line items and designated spice and ice cream lots. Code taggers appear to have applied this commodity code as a catch-all for institutional food procurement rather than its stated scope, making the code a weak signal for castor-bean-specific opportunity.