"Under the California Homemade Food Act, local governments cannot ban cottage food businesses based in private homes. Instead, home-based entrepreneurs can sell their goods after passing a “food processor course” (which can be done online), properly labeling their goods and practicing common-sense sanitation when cooking and baking. Those who want to start their own cottage food business legally need only register or obtain a permit...
So far, cottage food businesses appear to be safe. A dozen county public health departments report they have yet to receive a single complaint about them. Nor did these departments have to revoke any permits. (Other county departments of public health either do not track that information or did not return comment.)
Not only can cottage food laws free entrepreneurs from Kafkaesque government inspections, using their own kitchens to bake means they no longer have to rent out commercial kitchens, which can be expensive and not available in every city."
Very cool :)
I'm sure that laws banning the sale of homemade food made sense when they were first in stated and there was just bacteria everywhere and no one knew how to get a handle on it (my basis for this assumption is reading 'The Jungle' one time in high school, great book, makes me incredibly grateful for the FDA...).
But there is so much potential for homemade foods, something about this makes me really happy (+ a good friend of mine is taking advantage of this).
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