For food entrepreneurs
The following are resources to help keep food safe for people who make and sell baked goods, canned goods or other foods or who process produce they grow on their own farm or garden.
Safe food sampling
Learn how to provide safe food samples and comply with the Safe Food Sampling law. Find videos, checklists and other resources.
Cottage foods
Do you make and sell home-baked goods, home-canned pickles, salsa, jam or jelly? Be sure you sell a safe product.
- Cottage food producer food safety training - Tier 2 training for producers with $7,665 to $78,000 in annual sales.
- Sign up to receive the Cottage Foods newsletter from Extension
- Cottage Food Resource Hub
- Canning and pH testing record for cottage food producers
- Follow this checklist to produce a safe and legal cottage food product
- Using freeze-dried ingredients in cottage food
- Using frozen or fresh berries for frozen cottage foods
- When can you use fresh, cut fruit in cottage food products?
- The Minnesota Farmers' Market Association offers free online Tier 1 cottage food training for producers with less than $7,665 in annual sales.
Cleaning, sanitizing and preventing illness
- Listeria and candied and caramel-coated apples
- Norovirus: step-by-step clean up of vomit and diarrhea
Resources
- Food Safety for Food Entrepreneurs - Iowa State University Extension Store. A series for food entrepreneurs about best practices related to food safety, food labeling, and cleaning and sanitation of food contact surfaces. Free to download.
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