Cottage Foods
Cottage Foods
Definition
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 rules. 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 a commercial usage, and that the stove or oven be operated in an ordinary kitchen within the residence.
- Cottage Food Production Operation Fact Sheet (08/2019)
- ORC Chapter 3715: Pure Food and Drug Law
- OAC Chapter 901:3-20
ODA's Cottage Food Website provides additional information about cottage foods including:
- What Foods are Permitted to be Manufactured for Sale or Distribution by a Cottage Food Production Operation?
- What Foods are NOT Allowed to be Manufactured for Sale or Distribution by a Cottage Food Production Operation?
- What are the Requirements for the Labeling of Cottage Food Products?
- What does the Statement “This Product is Home Produced” Mean?
- Where may Cottage Food Production Operations Sell Their Food Products?
- Does a Cottage Food Production Operation Need to Acquire a License to Process and Package Food Products?