Georgia dropped the state cottage food license, so you can bake and sell non-hazardous foods from a Forsyth County home kitchen with no state permit and no revenue cap. Sales must go directly to the end consumer.
Georgia administers cottage food through the Department of Agriculture under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 40-7-19, not through Forsyth County. After House Bill 398, cottage food operators no longer need a state license, and the Department sets no limit on gross sales or units produced. Permitted items are non-potentially-hazardous, shelf-stable foods: breads, cakes, cookies, candies, jams, jellies, dried herbs, and granola. Foods needing refrigeration are excluded. Everything is made in the domestic kitchen of a primary residence and sold directly to the end consumer; wholesale to restaurants, retailers, or institutions is not allowed. Operators still label products and hold a Forsyth County business license.
Selling potentially hazardous foods that need refrigeration, or selling wholesale to restaurants or retailers, falls outside the cottage food exemption and pulls the operation under full Georgia food service permitting, with stop-sale orders possible.
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