David Crabill
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You probably need a business license (you don’t need to be incorporated)… not sure if you need a tax number. Here’s some info on insurance: http://forrager.com/faq/#insurance
It all depends on where you live. I’d recommend that as a first step, you call your county’s planning division.
Angela, as Jenny noted, I think you really need to know your market before committing to a corporation structure. She has very good and specific reasons for choosing it. The $800 franchise tax has been a big wake up call for some CFOs that over anticipated their success, later realizing that they didn’t really need an LLC. My personal recommendation is that except for some specific cases, it’s not necessary. The insurance does cover you for most things, and a lot of people are not aware that an LLC doesn’t completely protect their personal assets anyway, even though it does help. A big company needs to be much more concerned with getting sued.
In terms of nutrition facts resources, I don’t know of any, but I do know that most CFOs prefer to not include it. It makes everything a lot simpler, and most customers don’t need it anyway. I will say that there is a difference between a legitimate nutrition analysis and a lot of the nutrition facts calculators online. It’s not really an authentic panel if the product is not lab tested, and that does cost a significant amount of money unless it’s subsidized by the govt.
I don’t believe a product like that is allowed in Michigan.
I don’t think it matters (the law doesn’t specify it), but FM managers can require whatever they want to. So if they will kick you out if you don’t use stick on labels, then I would use them!
Assuming that your pie has some eggs in it, it wouldn’t be allowed, but it will be interesting to see what the health dept says.
A lot of farmers markets don’t allow CFOs, but some do.
You would no longer be able to make your products from home, and you’d need to get a commercial license: http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial
I really have no idea. When you make a health claim on the label, you need to get the nutrition facts for it, but in this case, I think you should call the health dept for more details.
They just released an amendment and it was not added, which tells me that it’s unlikely to ever get added by the health dept.
For all the talk from health depts about cottage foods being unsafe (because the kitchen is not inspected), I have never heard of one person getting sued over their cottage food products. Many CFOs get liability insurance to protect against it, and yet as far as I can tell none have needed it. By the very nature of cottage foods, they are very safe, even when made in a home kitchen.
The MN case is all I can think of as well. It’s odd that the only case is not against the cottage food law, but for it and against the state ag dept instead.
Yes, both of those are allowed.
