UNSPSC 50612707: Canned or jarred Non GMO giant white celery

The variety of Non GMO celery known as Non GMO giant white celery that has been canned or jarred 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 50612707 Canned or jarred Non GMO giant white celery, a Commodity code, does not match the scope of recent state and local procurement activity under this classification. The code nominally describes a single processed vegetable product, yet the recent opportunities posted under this code span broad food service procurement for schools, correctional facilities, health and human services agencies, and veterans' homes, encompassing hundreds of line items across produce, proteins, dairy, frozen goods, condiments, and consumables. The mismatch suggests either misclassification in source systems or that issuing bodies are tagging multi-category food service solicitations with a single commodity code rather than the family-level codes more appropriate to their scope.

Recent activity centers on school nutrition programs and state institutional food service. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, including Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Ben Hill County Schools (Georgia), Burke County Public Schools (Georgia), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Muscogee County School System (Georgia), and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia); state corrections, health and human services, and veterans' agencies (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy) also solicit regularly under this code. Geographic spread is concentrated in the South and Midwest, with Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Oregon showing the most recent activity. Representative opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products to supply the El Paso State Supported Living Center (due July 13, 2026, with estimated annual historical value of $1.5 million), Ben Hill County Schools' IFB for comprehensive school nutrition procurement (due June 15, 2026), and Fairfax County Public Schools' IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12 to 52 schools and distribution centers (due April 27, 2026). Typical solicitations are framed as IFBs or RFPs with firm fixed pricing and response cycles of two to four weeks, and many include cooperative purchasing provisions allowing other jurisdictions to piggyback. Demand remains steady through the standard school-year and fiscal-year procurement cycles, with July 1 contract start dates predominating across school and institutional buyers.