Colorado's Cottage Foods Act lets residents sell certain non-hazardous homemade foods directly to consumers without a license, capped at $10,000 net revenue per product per year. Weld County follows the state law; producers must complete a food safety course.
Under C.R.S. 25-4-1614, a home kitchen producing cottage foods is exempt from retail food licensing. Allowed foods are non-potentially-hazardous items that need no refrigeration, including spices, teas, dehydrated produce, nuts, honey, jams, jellies, preserves, fruit butter, and non-hazardous baked goods and candies; whole eggs are allowed up to 250 dozen per month. Foods must be sold direct to the end consumer at the producer's premises, roadside stand, farmers' market, or CSA, not to grocery or retail stores. Net revenue is capped at $10,000 per calendar year per product, producers must take a food safety course, and products must be labeled. The Weld County Department of Public Health administers local food safety.
Selling foods outside the allowed list, or without the required food-safety training and labeling, can lead a local public health agency to embargo product and enforce the retail-food licensing law.
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