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Revolutionary “Cottage Food” Law Proposed in Virginia

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span><img alt="http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2013-01-02/0102-cali-home-food-630x420.jpg" class="decoded" height="266" src="http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2013-01-02/0102-cali-home-food-630x420.jpg" width="400" /></div>Photo Credit:<a class="_Le irc_hol" data-ved="0CAQQjB0" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-02/californias-newest-business-craze-homemade-food"><span class="irc_ho" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">www.businessweek.com</span></a><span class="_Rl"> </span><br />  <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">'Bill would exempt ALL homemade foods from regulation, including perishable foods'</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /><br />'A proposed cottage-food law in Virginia attempts to go <a href="http://cottagefoods.org/2014/01/virginias-new-cottage-food-bill-ambitious/"><span style="color: blue;">farther than any cottage-food law has gone before</span></a>. If passed, it would exempt virtually all homemade – or small-farm-made – foods from regulation, provided the foods are sold directly from producer to consumer, in face-to-face transactions.<br /><br />Cottage food laws typically exempt only non-perishable homemade goodies, like jams, jellies, cakes, cookies, candy and other novelty items that can be stored at room temperature. But the <a href="http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?141+sum+HB135"><span style="color: blue;">“Virginia Food Freedom Act”</span></a> would exempt all homemade foods – including meat, dairy, partially cooked foods like chicken pot pie, and other foods requiring refrigeration – from licensing laws, health inspections, sales limitations and basically all government interference of any kind.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">  </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Small farmers with 10 or fewer employees would be included in the definition of homemade-food producers.' </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Read <a href="http://www.naturalblaze.com/2014/01/revolutionary-cottage-food-law-proposed.html">more... </a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">  </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Revolutionary “Cottage Food” Law Proposed in Virginia

Photo Credit: www.businessweek.com 'Bill would exempt ALL homemade foods from regulation, including perishable foods' 'A pr...

Revolutionary “Cottage Food” Law Proposed in Virginia

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