The phrase "avoided producing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions taken to prevent the creation or generation of something, often in a context of decision-making or strategy.
Example: "The team avoided producing unnecessary reports that would clutter the workflow."
Alternatives: "prevented creating" or "refrained from generating".
More importantly we avoided producing academic tomes about the plight of LGB people that would simply be used to prop up wonky desks in MPs' offices.
Social media firms have become more attuned to the commercial value of news in recent years although they have for the most part studiously avoided producing content.
According to the Publishers Association, 60% of publishers have avoided producing books about people or companies that have previously sued for libel.
By moving aggressively into news and information, SportsNet New York will diverge from YES, which carries pregame and postgame programs, but has avoided producing anything like ESPN's "Sports Center as duplicative of what is on other networks.
Cars need a certain amount of oxygen to avoid producing carbon monoxide from gasoline.
We wanted to avoid producing a pastiche of M/M's work or a neutral response.
Let's hope Proyas manages to convey its deeply odd majesty, and avoid producing a version that only glances the surface of Milton's great work.
Although auto companies cite their revenue from recycling, they also tend to agree that the best way to reduce waste is to avoid producing it.
Those sounds, among others, were integral to an earlier set in which Mr. Evans, a serious technician, gave the impression of laboring to avoid producing any sound that could qualify as a note.
The government makes it expensive for companies to emit carbon dioxide, and then market forces work their magic: those companies aggressively seek ways to avoid producing the stuff, to try to get a competitive edge on one another.
If an electricity company exceeds this target by generating most or all of its power from renewables it can sell its extra green electricity credits to other companies which in turn can avoid producing any green power themselves.
