Utah Can you legally sell food from home in Utah?
Cottage Food Law
Utah has 3 laws for selling homemade food. This page is for Utah’s food freedom law, also known as the Home Consumption and Homemade Food Act (HB 181), which has existed since 2018.
Utah also has an older cottage food law, which allows sales at more venues, and a micro restaurant law (HB 94), which allows you to run a mini restaurant from home.
This law is quite generous. You can sell almost any type of food, except raw dairy and most meat products. There is no sales limit, and you don’t need to get a permit, inspection, or training to start selling (although you may need a business license).
However, you can only sell directly to consumers within the state, at a home, farm, office, special farmers market, or another location you agree on with the customer. Your products also need to be eaten in a home, so you can’t sell items like wedding cakes that will be served at a venue.
In 2026, Utah passed SB 217, which allows you to sell and deliver your products through a “designated representative”, and exempts your sales from sales tax.
Most producers will use this law, but those who want to sell at events, retail stores, and roadside stands can use the cottage food law, which is much more complicated and expensive to set up.
Selling Where can you sell homemade food products?
You must sell your products directly to the consumer, in person. You can sell at a farm, ranch, home, office, “direct-to-sale” farmers market, or “any location agreed upon” by you and the consumer. Selling at festivals, events, and roadside stands is likely not allowed, because there is no prior agreement between you and the consumer.
You can only sell at a regular farmers market if it has a separate section for homemade food vendors. You can also sell at “direct-to-sale farmers markets”, which only have vendors selling uninspected products.
You can hire a “designated representative” to sell, deliver, or store your products for you. You keep ownership of your products unless you agree otherwise.
You cannot sell your products to restaurants or stores.
Allowed Foods What food products can you sell from home?
Almost all foods are allowed, except these prohibited foods:
- Raw dairy or raw dairy products
- Most meat products
- Alcoholic drinks
Although most meat products are prohibited, these are allowed:
- Poultry and poultry products, if you slaughter no more than 1,000 birds per year
- Domesticated rabbit meat
If you sell poultry or poultry products, you must follow the USDA’s poultry exemption guidance.
Limitations How will your home food business be restricted?
Business What do you need to do to sell food from home?
You may need to get a business license from your city or county. However, a city cannot charge a fee for a home-based business unless it has more offsite impact (like traffic or parking) than a typical home.
Starting July 1, 2026, your food sales are exempt from sales tax.
Labeling How do you label cottage food products?
This product is not for resale and was processed and prepared without state or local inspection
Forrager Cookie Company
123 Chewy Way, Cookietown, UT 73531
Contains: milk, eggs, wheat, soy
You must also tell customers that your products are “not certified, licensed, regulated, or inspected by the state or any county or city”.
Your allergen statement must say whether the product contains, or was made in a kitchen that also handles, milk, soy, wheat, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, or shellfish.
If you are under 18, you don’t need to label your products.
Resources Where can you find more information about this law?
- Job Title
- Retail Food Program Manager
- Organization
- Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
- Telephone
- (385) 332-1499