UNSPSC 51171617: Castor oil

This classification denotes a natural product, a preparation that US FDA regulates as an active ingredient or moiety under Unique Ingredient Identifier D5340Y2I9G. European Medicines Agency schedules Castor oil in its eXtended EudraVigilance Medicinal Product Dictionary or XEVMPD under Index SUB13263MIG. Castor oil generally arises in the molecular formula C57H104O9. The term 'castor oil' is a United States Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Name designation. As of Q4 2014, CASTOR OIL remains the US FDA Preferred Term for this commodity.

Castor oil bears US NLM identifiers UMLS ID C0007343 and NCI Concept Code C80990. SMILES: NONE.

UNSPSC 51171617 Castor oil is a Commodity code that shows limited alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The three recent opportunities posted under or near this code address offender drug testing services, pharmaceutical direct-to-manufacturer contracting, and generic multi-source pharmaceuticals and OTC products — none of which involve castor oil as a procured product. Collin County Community Supervision and Corrections Department's RFP for offender specimen collection and drug testing services solicits laboratory testing capacity and staffing, not chemical inputs. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission's RFI on Therapeutic Pharmacy Initiative Direct-to-Manufacturer Prescriptions seeks vendor capabilities for prescription fulfillment through direct manufacturer relationships outside traditional pharmacy benefit manager channels. The Minnesota Multistate Cooperative Purchasing Alliance's RFP for generic multi-source pharmaceuticals and OTC products targets manufacturers and distributors of finished pharmaceutical goods meeting FDA and cGMP standards. None of these solicitations contemplate procurement of castor oil or oil-derivative chemical feedstocks.

The code exhibits little relevant recent state and local activity. When state and local procurement entities tag opportunities to this code, the actual work being solicited falls outside the scope of castor oil supply — instead covering clinical and pharmaceutical services, pharmacy benefit administration, and finished pharmaceutical products. The geographic footprint of recent activity spans Texas (Collin County and HHS Commission) and Minnesota (MMCAP), but these represent pharmaceutical and testing service procurement rather than chemical commodity sourcing. If your firm supplies castor oil to state and local buyers, monitor this code for future activity; the current posting record does not support active demand under the nominal commodity scope.