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Caveat Venditor: Cottage Food Laws Great in Theory, Often Less So in Practice
Posted on December 1, 2011 in News
So-called “cottage foods” laws are popping up around the country in response to the growing demand for local foods on the part of buyers and sellers. Generally, these laws help the entrepreneurs behind small startup ventures operated out of the home opt out of the crushing regulations faced by restaurants and other food sellers. But in spite of the good intentions behind the laws, they sometimes merely create a parallel system of numbingly stupid regulations.
