A Cottage Food operation may produce homemade food and drink. However, a Cottage Food operation, unless properly licensed, certified, and compliant with all requirements to sell a listed food item under the laws and regulations pertinent to that food item,
shall not sell
or offer to sell the following food items,
except as indicated:
- Meat, poultry, fish, seafood, or shellfish
- Dairy, except as an ingredient in a non-potentially hazardous baked good or candy, such as caramel
- eggs, except as an ingredient in a non-potentially hazardous baked good or in dry noodles
- Pumpkin pies, sweet potato pies, cheesecakes, custard pies, creme pies, and pastries with potentially hazardous fillings or toppings
- Garlic in oil
- Canned foods, except for fruit jams, fruit jellies, fruit preserves, fruit butters, and acidified vegetables
- Sprouts
- Cut leafy greens, except for leafy greens that are dehydrated or blanched and frozen
- Cut fresh tomato or melon
- Frozen cut melon
- Wild-harvested, non-cultivated mushrooms
- Alcoholic beverages