@CreBobble

As far as I know, owning a smoothie shop will require you to setup a commercial kitchen, with inspections from the health dept. As long as you’re going to do all of that, you might as well also use it for making your dried fruit. I don’t think your shop can sell homemade goods.

Bake sales like this may be possible, but it’s up to your health dept to draw the lines for what’s allowed.

I really don’t know. My guess is that the added processing would require you to make it in a commercial kitchen. I doubt you’ll be able to find specific info about creamed honey online — you should just talk to the dept.

I think you might be referring to ServSafe’s online course, in which case you should contact them for help. The ag or health dept is in charge of in-person training courses.

One thing that complicates things is that CFOs do not need a permit from the ag dept, so most probably don’t check with the ag dept before starting their business. But from what I’ve heard, in Miami-Dade a CFO would get stopped if an inspector walked through the market.

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I assume you’re talking about an online demo on some other website. I can’t help with other sites but I can tell you that you won’t be able to use Flash with an iPhone. You should contact that website’s support team if you can’t access it. I don’t have county-specific info for courses in Alabama. Sorry that I can’t be of much help.

Oh okay… you’re definitely not going to find that info online! You need to be in close communication with the health dept.

You mean for building one? It’s super complicated and the rules a different for each dept. If you just want to use a commercial kitchen, you can do that, but you’ll still need to submit plans to the health dept. I’m not sure exactly what your question is, but I won’t have any definite answers because it depends on the dept.

You must follow Maryland’s laws, and I don’t think they will allow you to sell in PA.

You can’t sell those items if you make them at home. http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial

You can’t incorporate catering. Catering includes handling food outside of the home, and a CFO, by definition, must do all preparation and handling of food inside the home. So you do need to go the commercial route and talk to your health dept.

I’m sure you have to be licensed, but I’m not sure how. You should contact your health dept.