UNSPSC 50613518: Canned or jarred Non GMO thai eggplants

The variety of Non GMO eggplants known as Non GMO thai eggplants that have 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 50613518 Canned or jarred non-GMO Thai eggplants is a Commodity code that sees minimal targeted procurement activity in state and local government—the recent opportunities block shows no solicitations specifically for this product line. State and local food service operations, particularly school districts and state health agencies, do procure canned vegetables and specialty food items through broader food supply contracts, but those opportunities are tagged to higher-tier UNSPSC families covering general canned goods, fresh produce, or comprehensive food service provisioning rather than to this specific eggplant commodity. School nutrition programs, institutional kitchens at state-supported living centers and correctional facilities, and veterans' homes represent the primary institutional buyers of shelf-stable food products in this category, but their recent RFPs and IFBs focus on staple vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, carrots) and mixed grocery bundles where Thai eggplants, if procured at all, appear as minor line items within larger contracts rather than as standalone commodity bids.

The geographic spread of recent food service procurement spans Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Oregon, Illinois, and Virginia, with school districts and state health and corrections agencies as the dominant issuing bodies. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's statewide supplemental food and consumables IFB (HHS0017449, due July 13, 2026, covering 23 qualified ordering entities across Texas with a prior-year historical value of $1.5 million), the Oregon Department of Corrections' canned tomato solicitations (S2910000016405 and S2910000015837, seeking approximately 7,616 cases each), and large school district food bids such as Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 contract (IFB 2000004323, April 27, 2026) and multiple Georgia school nutrition programs procuring comprehensive produce and grocery line items. This code's narrow commodity scope—non-GMO Thai eggplants specifically—does not align with the actual procurement patterns observed; vendors pursuing food service contracts in state and local markets should focus on broader family-level UNSPSC codes for canned vegetables, fresh produce, or institutional food service, where Thai eggplants would be positioned as specialty items within larger competitive bids.