Cottage Foods
Association of Food and Drug Officials
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Definitions

(1)     "Cottage food operation" means a person who produces cottage food products only in the home kitchen of that person's primary domestic residence and only for sale directly to the consumer. A Cottage food operation shall not operate as a food service establishment, retail food store, or wholesale food manufacturer.

(2)     "Cottage food products" means non-potentially hazardous baked goods, jams, jellies, and other non-potentially hazardous foods produced at a cottage food operation.

(3)     "Domestic residence" means a single-family dwelling or an area within a rental unit where a single person or family actually resides. A domestic residence does not include any group or communal residential setting within any type of structure, or outbuilding, shed, barn, or other similar structure.


(4)     "Home kitchen" means a kitchen designed and intended for use by the residents of a home but that is also used by a resident for the production of cottage food products. It may contain one or more stoves or ovens, which may be a double oven, designed for residential use. It shall not include commercial types of equipment typically used for large wholesale manufacturing.

(5)     "Permitted area" means the portion of a domestic residence housing a home kitchen where the preparation, packaging, storage, or handling of cottage food products occurs.

(6)     "Potentially hazardous food (time/temperature control for safety food)" means a food that requires time/temperature control for safety to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation.
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