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Want to Sell Your Homemade Jam and Other Canned Goods?

Selling Your Home-Canned Foods?

Everyone tells you that your homemade jams, salsa, pickles, applesauce, apple butter, etc are incredible, so why not sell them? It seems like a logic next step, but what is involved in selling your own home-canned goods?

The problem is twofold: kitchen licensing and product liability.

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A licensed kitchen

In order to sell your homemade jams on a commercial basis, in most states, you will need to have your kitchen meet commercial grade kitchen standards and pass a health department inspection, like a restaurant. People who have done this tell me it can easily cost $50,000 to convert a home kitchen.

I've heard that there are a handful of states that have small quantity exceptions, but I have not been able to confirm that.

One way around this is to prepare your batches in kitchen that is already licensed. Some people rent restaurant kitchens during their off-hours and do the prep and canning there.

That still leaves the product liability issue.

As you may have noticed in news stores, anyone that sells prepared foods is beset with false (and real) claims of food poison, finding strange objects in the jars and loads of lawsuits.

It can be a fulltime job just fighting the frivolous lawsuits.

And there are the real cases: canning meats and dairy is very challenging to do at home; the risks are much greater for food poisoning than for high acid fruits and vegetables (like jam, applesauce and salsa).  The latter are much safer, but still pose risks.

Now, if you are still interested in selling your homemade products; go for it! But be sure to consult a good lawyer and your local health department first to understand what you need to do to be legal and to protect your business!

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