Florida lets you make and sell certain non-hazardous foods from your Osceola County home kitchen without a state food permit, as a cottage food operation, as long as annual gross sales stay at or below $250,000 and products are properly labeled.
Under FS 500.80, a cottage food operation may produce non-time/temperature-control-for-safety foods (breads, cookies, jams, dry mixes and similar) in a home kitchen and sell them directly to consumers, online, by mail order, or at events, without a Department of Agriculture food permit. Annual gross sales must not exceed $250,000 across all locations. Wholesale sales are prohibited. Each product must be prepackaged and labeled, including the statutory warning that it was made in an operation not subject to Florida's food-safety regulations. Local zoning still treats this as a home occupation.
Exceeding the $250,000 cap, selling wholesale, mislabeling, or selling prohibited hazardous foods removes the exemption and subjects the operator to Department of Agriculture enforcement under FS Ch. 500.
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