Cedar Park, TX Home Business: Cottage Food Operations (2026)

Texas Health & Safety Code §437.0193 establishes the cottage food framework and bars municipalities from regulating cottage food production operations as a food service establishment, including no requirement for a local food handler permit or inspection of the home kitchen. A Cedar Park resident operating a cottage food business may sell allowed non-time/temperature-controlled foods (baked goods, jams, jellies, candies, dry mixes, popcorn, roasted coffee, fermented vegetables, certain pickled fruit/vegetables, and others listed in §437.001(2-b)) directly to consumers from the home, at farmers' markets, roadside stands, by mail order, or via internet sales delivered personally by the operator. Labels must follow §437.0193(b), including the producer's name and physical address (or, since SB 541/2025, a DSHS-issued unique ID), product name, allergen disclosure, and the statement 'This food is made in a home kitchen and is not inspected by the Department of State Health Services or a local health department.' Annual gross receipts cap: $50,000. The operator must complete a basic food handler course. Local zoning still requires compliance with the home-occupation customer-traffic and signage rules above.