Cottage Laws

A cottage food production operation is defined in chapter 3715 of the ohio revised code to mean a person who in the person s home produces food items that are not potentially hazardous foods including bakery products jams jellies candy fruit butter and similar products specified in rules.

Cottage laws. Find the most up to date information about the cottage food laws in every state. 33 33 10 preparation of cottage food products for sale effective on january 1 2020 offers clarification for which cottage food products are authorized for sale according to law and therefore excluded from state or local licensing labeling and inspection requirements cottage food rules do not add regulations but further define baked goods jams jellies and. No license inspection or training from the ag department is required.

Effective january 1 2013. Cottage foods must be properly packaged and labeled. Totally rewritten for the 2019 cottage food update.

Check out the new f a q. See how the law has changed over the years. 572 is the most comprehensive reform to the cottage food law since 2013.

Florida passed an amendment to their cottage food law in 2017 which allowed internet sales and raised the sales limit to 50 000 florida now has a very good cottage food law especially considering that it is very easy for a producer to start selling. Michigan s cottage food law pa 113 of 2010 exempts a cottage food operation from the licensing and inspection provisions of the michigan food law. Arizona cottage food laws regulations and facts date of the enactment of the arizona cottage food law.

Cottage food operators can serve free samples for tasting but the samples must be prepackaged. Assembly bill ab 1616 authored by assemblyman gatto chapter 415 statutes of 2012 was signed into law by governor brown on september 21 2012. You ve got questions about the cottage food law with sb 572 changes lots and lots of questions.

It limits producers to just baked goods confections and some jams jellies preserves fruit butters but there is no sales limit and getting started is easy. Florida cottage food law. While cottage food laws allow a person to legally bake and prepare certain foods in their home kitchens and sell them on a small scale typically at farmers markets and direct to other consumers very few states allow them to sell to restaurants and grocery stores.