Exciting news for home based food businesses with the passage of AB-626 by Governor Brown in September. The new law has now made it permissible to sell food cooked from your home effective January 1, 2019, of course there are a few restrictions and caveats.
This has expanded the old cottage laws that prevented meat and other high risk foods.
The AB-626 law creates a category of businesses titled “Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations,” consisting of small businesses making $50,000 or less per year (and no more than 60 meals/week) in their homes. These meals must be direct sales, in which the product is delivered to, or picked up by, the customer. No wholesaling is allowed under the law.
This is exciting news for young entrepreneurs who want to sell their home cooked, special recipes.
Going forward it’s expected that, stakeholder groups (food delivery apps, food safety organizations, and the maker community) will be watching closely to see how the Department of Health addresses these new regulations (and the influx of inspections that will be needed to license them). There could be an enormous impact on the home food market in California.
Read more in the article below.
https://www.cookalliance.org/about-the-bill/
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