New Law in California allows some homemade food to be sold

We are so far behind but I am not sure what I think about home made food as we do not know about the condition of people's kitchen. Of course we do
not know about restaurant kitchens but they are inspected. I would eat from the pictured kitchen it looks clean. (but he is not wearing a hairnet).


http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... emade-food

Hi- I've been told by my sister in Michigan, that they now have a law where if you have sales I believe of less than $3,000 annually, you do not have to produce food out of a licensed kitchen. Any business that generates over $3,000 in food sales, still has to use a licensed kitchen, which means that you can not use your home kitchen. If somebody just has a small amount in sales, then it does not make any sense to build or rent a licensed kitchen. There is somebody that used to make homemade fudge that we sold at our fruit stand, and she was required by the health department to build a separate kitchen, and I am sure that her sales were not huge, Most of the fudge she made was sold at her fruit stand in the summer time. Hope this helps, Nancy

Illinois Cottage Food Law http://www.ilstewards.org/content/12404

Good to know. Its sad that in IL "cottage foods" can only be sold at farmers markets. That scraps a lot of people who might have other ways of selling their foods. It seems the california law does include a kitchen inspection.