Cottage Food Fact Sheet

Cottage Food Labeling Requirements

The Miami County Health Department asked us to post a couple of updates on the Cottage Food requirements, so here is a Cottage Food Fact Sheet and the Cottage Food Labeling Requirements for those–see you soon at the Market!

A “Cottage Food Production Operation” is defined in Chapter 3715 of the Ohio Revised Code to mean a person who, in the person’s home, produces food items that are not potentially hazardous foods, including bakery products, jams, jellies, candy,  fruit butter, and similar products specified in the rule. These foods must be labeled properly or they will be considered misbranded or adulterated.”Home” means the primary residence occupied by the residence’s owner, on the condition that the residence contains only one stove or oven used for cooking, which may be a double oven, designed for common residence usage and not for commercial usage, and that the stove or oven be operated in an ordinary kitchen within the residence.