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What foods can and cannot be sold as "cottage foods" in Georgia?

Damian Roberti: Cottage Food Laws, the brand new YouTube channel launched to help all cottage food operators understand the laws and show you how to market, promote, and grow your food business from home. In this video, we'll cover what foods can you and can you not produce in Georgia under the cottage food laws. We'll have a link directly to the Georgia state website where you can actually do a little more research for yourself. Products that, if left out alone, can become potentially hazardous if they are actually eaten or consumed.

Those are the eligible items that you're going to be able to actually sell in the state of Georgia under their cottage food laws. In Georgia, you can actually do that from home. Popcorn and cotton candy are the number one sellers at any farmer's market, festival or fair. If you even get a popcorn popper, you can invest anywhere from three to $500 and have a business up and running that you can sell locally. Most people think that cottage food laws, where you can create food from home, actually allow you to create things like pizza or sandwiches or any type of item like that.

And again, if you want to check down below, when you go over to that blog post I mentioned about the links to the Georgia state website, I will have a couple links for suppliers where you can get some of these products like nuts in bulk and such. Under cottage food laws, they limit it by the state as to what you can prepare. Some of the items that you can't make, and this is pretty generalized across a lot of states when it comes to cottage food, is meat jerky. Salsas, barbecues, and ketchup are items that have acidity levels. And if those acidic levels don't reach a certain pH ratio, then those are things that can cause bacteria.

Every state has its own cottage food laws, but they don't protect you as a food producer or food producer even if you're making products at home. Also included are things that could be potentially bacterial because of the fact that once you make it, it has to be consumed very quickly unless you process it, and you're not under cottage food law. Georgia's cottage food laws do not protect you from that, and neither does your homeowner's insurance policy, just so you know. If anybody gets sick, they can only go after the business, not you personally. Most of these issues will pop up once in a while under cottage food laws.