Indiana's Home Based Vendor Law lets you make and sell approved non-hazardous foods from a St. Joseph County home with no license or health permit. Under IC 16-42-5.3-4 the food must be produced at your primary residence and sold directly to the end consumer.
The Indiana Home Based Vendor Law, IC 16-42-5.3, overrides local food-establishment permitting for qualifying home-prepared foods and applies statewide, including in unincorporated St. Joseph County and its cities. IC 16-42-5.3-4 requires the product to be made at the vendor's primary residence, to not be a time/temperature-control-for-safety food, to be prepared with proper sanitary procedures, and to be sold in person, by phone, or online and delivered directly to the end consumer. Items such as breads, cookies, candies, jams, and dried herbs qualify; foods needing refrigeration for safety do not. Each product must carry a label with the vendor's name, address, and a statement that it was made in a home kitchen not inspected by the state health department.
Selling time/temperature-control foods, reselling through a store, or omitting the required home-kitchen label strips Home Based Vendor protection and subjects the seller to full retail food-establishment permitting and inspection by the St. Joseph County Department of Health.
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