Colorado's Cottage Foods Act lets you make and sell certain non-hazardous foods from your home kitchen without a health-department license, as long as you sell directly to the consumer, complete a food safety course, and earn no more than $10,000 net per product each year. This state law applies in
Under CRS 25-4-1614, "A producer may use his or her home kitchen ... to produce foods for sale only if the producer sells the foods directly to informed end consumers." Allowed foods are non-potentially-hazardous items that need no refrigeration, such as jams, jellies, honey, dry spices, dehydrated produce, nuts, flour, baked goods, and certain candies, plus up to 250 dozen whole eggs per month. The Act "applies only to producers who earn net revenues of ten thousand dollars or less per calendar year from the sale of each eligible food product," and producers must take a food safety / basic food handling course. No health-department license or inspection is required.
Selling refrigeration-required foods, going through retail middlemen, or exceeding the per-product revenue cap falls outside the Act and can trigger state or county public-health enforcement.
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