Louisiana Cottage Food Law

Foods that need time and temperature control for safety known as tcs foods generally include foods like milk and dairy products eggs meat beef pork and lamb poultry fish shellfish and crustaceans baked potatoes tofu or other soy protein sprouts and sprout seeds sliced melons cut tomatoes cut leafy greens untreated garlic and oil mixtures and cooked rice beans and vegetables.

Louisiana cottage food law. Hb 775 would raise that to 50 000. Baked goods including breads cakes cookies and pies. Of title 40 of the louisiana revised statutes of 1950 better known as the state food drug.

The amendment hb 1270 greatly increased the number of foods allowed and it also increased the amount of regulations cfos must follow. That s a step in the right direction but restricting how much entrepreneurs can legally earn is completely arbitrary. Currently louisiana law caps gross annual sales of cottage food at 20 000.

Food manufacturing and processing in louisiana occurs in a variety of forms from the bottling of drinking water and soft drinks to the production of such endemic louisiana staples as gumbos hot sauces and crawfish pies. 1 a no provision of the state sanitary code or any provision of any other law or regulation that requires any equipment design construction utensils supplies preparation or services shall apply to the preparation of low risk foods as defined in subsection e of this section in the home for sale. All of these activities are regulated by the food and drug unit fdu under the authority of the louisiana administrative code specifically part vi of title 51 and 601 et seq.

Date of the enactment of the cottage food law. In fact 20 states have no sales cap at all according to a report by the harvard food law policy clinic. Cottage food guidelines louisiana house bill 1270 simplified proposed law retains present law and extends application of the general exception to food preparation regulations provided therein to all home based preparers of low risk foods.

Louisiana s cottage food law act 542 was started in 2013 and amended in 2014. Preparation in home for public consumption. State departments of public health.

The following foods were specifically listed. There is a sales limit of 20 000 per year. 16other law or regulation that requires any equipment design construction utensils supplies preparation or services shall apply to the17 preparation of jellies preserves 18jams honey honeycomb products cakes and cookies low risk foods as defined in subsection e of this19 section in the home for sale.