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Senate committee adopts bill to expand cottage-food rules with safety and labeling amendments
Summary
The Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Programs on May 8 advanced SB 24-31 SD1 to allow low-risk home-prepared foods and microenterprise home kitchen operations while aligning definitions, labeling, permitting and enforcement with existing public laws and the 2022 FDA Food Code.
The Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Programs voted to adopt SB 24-31 SD1 on May 8, advancing legislation to let small food entrepreneurs sell defined low-risk, nonperishable foods and to establish sanitary-permit, labeling and inspection requirements.
The bill’s committee substitute incorporates multiple amendments requested by the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation’s Environmental Health Division (EHDP) and other stakeholders to make statutory language consistent with the 2022 FDA Food Code and local enforcement laws. Committee members and EHDP staff said the changes are intended to broaden entrepreneurship while preserving public-health protections.
John Tagabao of CHCC Environmental Health Services, who joined the meeting with…
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