You can bake and sell cottage foods from a Hernando County kitchen with no permit and no local approval. Fla. Stat. §500.80 preempts cottage food regulation to the state, letting an operation gross up to $250,000 a year selling non-hazardous foods like breads, jams, and cookies.
The 2021 expansion of Florida's cottage food law bars Hernando County and the City of Brooksville from touching home food operations. Under Fla. Stat. §500.80 a cottage food operation needs no state permit or license and may gross up to $250,000 a year producing non-potentially-hazardous foods, breads, cakes, jams, dry mixes, and similar shelf-stable items, in a home kitchen. The 2021 amendments also let operators ship, not just hand-sell, those goods. Every package carries a label with the operator's name and address, the ingredients, allergen information, and a notice that the food was made in an operation not subject to Florida's food safety regulations.
Selling potentially hazardous foods that need refrigeration, exceeding the $250,000 cap, or selling at wholesale strips the exemption and pulls the operation under full DBPR food permitting, with stop-sale orders and penalties.
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