You can bake and sell cottage foods from an Okaloosa 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 Okaloosa County and its cities 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. Since 2021 operators may also ship and sell online statewide, not just face to face. 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. Wholesale sales are barred; the operation sells direct to the consumer.
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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