Would allow indirect sales through stores, restaurants, etc. Would allow online sales and in-state shipping. Would increase the sales limit from $50,000 to $150,000 per year. Would put the permitting process and other requirements into state law. Would allow a health official to conduct a kitchen inspection.
Would increase the sales limit from $50,000 to $100,000 per year. Would require the health department to approve permit applications within 21 business days and simplify the application process. Would keep producers’ recipes private from public records requests. Would ensure consistency of implementing the law throughout the state.
Would create a new law to allow “home kitchen operations” (AKA micro-restaurants) to sell ready-to-eat meals and food.
Would allow “microenterprise home kitchen operations” to sell many types of perishable foods.
Syntactic changes that would not change the cottage food law.
Would remove the sales limits for both the cottage food and MEHKO laws. Would also remove the production limits for MEHKOs. Would also allow mobile food facilities to operate under the MEHKO law.
Would allow products to be sold online and be shipped. Would also allow products to be sold in food service establishments. Would also remove the $25k sales limit. Allows a producer to use a registration number on labels instead of their name and home address.