Are you looking to sell food from home and you live in the state of California will this blog post I'm going to cover what you can and cannot make in your home and we're going to start talking about it right now.
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so California is Cottage food laws allow you to sell a huge variety of foods now there's two different types of licenses a license a license B and we're going to cover that more information down below. Create an LLC get started.
First let's talk about the amount you can cell. As of today you are allowed to sell up to $50,000 in food from your home. Let's cover right now where you can sell your food from Once you create your food products under the cottage food laws in California. You want to know where you can sell your foods.
The following is a list of areas and venues that you can sell a food product in cottage food law in California.
local events like public events and fairs and festivals farmers markets although farmers markets have to be State Certified you can sell your food products through California Cottage food laws. Start your California Cottage food webiste here.
Selling from home people can actually come to your home your customers and bring it to pick up the products that you make from home under the cottage food law in California. You can also actually sell your food online through the California Cottage food laws but you have to deliver it or have them pick up within the state line you cannot ship the product over state lines.
Restaurants can sell your products and also use them in their cooking.
Some retail stores also allowed to sell your product and resell them through the cottage food law in California.
Roadside stands these are also stands that have to be of course licensed and regulated by the City California.
You can also deliver and have people pick up the products from your home. Now in order to fall in line with the correct laws make sure that your county and City have adopted the state of California is Cottage food laws that allow you to sell food from home not every city or county will allow it so you need to double check on your specific place.
So the class A California Cottage food law permit will allow you to sell products directly to a consumer such as a farmers market or a local food stand or an event in the area. It again as mentioned above you can sell through the internet or even on the phone but you have to deliver it within the person in the heck she purchased it from you if you cannot use a service like post office or FedEx or UPS.
Now there is the class B license you can sell actually indirectly and directly to Consumers with a California Cottage state law class B license this is great to because you can also sell directly to a retailer.
so now let's get into the types of food that you can actually sell through California Cottage food laws. Bread, biscuits, brownies, cakes, cookies, Stones, tortilla chips, waffles, and much more this is not an all-inclusive list but this is some of the items that you're allowed to sell through Cottage food law under California.
You can also sell candies chocolate fudge even as well as cotton candies. Many of these items are very profitable when you go to fairs far the festivals in local events in your area under the cottage food law in the state of California
California. Believe it or not you can even sell Mustard's nut Butters syrups vinegar cinnamon honey on her California Cottage food law.
Spices seasonings, pasta noodles, mixes, herbs, dried fruit, coffee beans, cereals, and even tea leaves are allowed to be sold through Cottage food law under State of California as well.
Fruit Butters, jams and jellies, and other preserves are allowed to be sold as well with either a Class A or Class B license under the California Cottage food law.
Does a huge list of snacks that they're allowed to be made at home through California Cottage food laws and that would include candied apples, Caramel corn, crackers and pretzels, granola, popcorn, dried vegetable chips, nuts and seeds, these are very all so profitable products that can be sold locally at Main Event in the state of California out of the cottage food law.
There are some items no that are prohibited so this is not an all-inclusive list but it does have a handful that you cannot make because of the acidity or the pH levels of these products plus they need to be regulated and inspected by the state such as meat jerky, carbonated drinks, fermented foods, pickles, perishable baked goods.
Now even though you're selling food from home under California's Cottage food laws there are some things that are limited those limitations are as follows.
Children are restricted from the area in which you are producing the product. Employees are restricted you are only allowed to make the item yourself and your own home. Inter-county sales are restricted. Interstate sales are prohibited these are sales word product will cross over state lines and go into another state that's a restricted also from the area in which you're producing the food product sales limit smoking is also prohibited from the area with your producer in a food product sold in her Cottage Grove dog California
So you also need to register and get a permit from the local Health Department Class A Cottage food operators need to register by submitting an application and completing a self-certification checklist this cost 100 to $200.
Class B operations get a permit for direct or indirect sales this fee actually berries by Health Department it could be between two to three hundred dollars yes it does cost a little bit more.
You also need to get a food handlers card you have to take an accredited course that the now when you label your food products under Cottage food laws the following needs to be on the label allergens business address, the business name, County name, ingredients, net amount, permit number, product name, and a statement stating that the product is made at home inspected facility.