You can bake and sell cottage foods from an Indian River County kitchen with no permit and no local sign-off. 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.
Florida's expanded cottage food law keeps Indian River County and cities like Vero Beach out of 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 making non-potentially-hazardous foods, breads, cakes, jams, dry mixes, and other shelf-stable items, in a home kitchen. Each 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 is off-limits; a cottage operation sells straight to the consumer.
Selling potentially hazardous foods that need refrigeration, going past 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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