Hi there,
A couple weeks ago, I
told you about Delaware, which changed their law months ago without me even realizing it.
And this week, it happened again! Just recently I learned that
Nebraska changed their law this year, and as of July, their new law is already in effect!
In April, Nebraska passed
LB 262, which is
a significant improvement to their cottage food law.
Most notably,
Nebraska now allows most types of food to be sold, including many types of perishable foods. They are now similar to
Illinois, which doesn't state what items
can be sold, but only specifies a list of things that
can't be sold.
The other major change (thanks to support from the
Institute for Justice) is that local governments cannot restrict cottage food businesses, like
Lincoln, NE tried to do a few years ago.
This has been touted as a food freedom bill, and to me,
although the bill focused on elements of food freedom, I still wouldn't say that Nebraska has a food freedom law. They don't allow producers to sell through stores, and they don't allow any products containing meat, like a number of food freedom states now do.
But overall,
it's a great bill and a large step forward for Nebraska, which just 5 years ago, had one of the worst cottage food laws in the country. This improvement bumped them up a level on
Forrager's map, and they now have a very good cottage food law!
Forraging ahead,
David