Selling food you made at home in Arizona

Where you may sell

• Direct to people anywhere in Arizona
• Farmers markets and events, with your certificate on display
• A shop or kiosk shelf for shelf-stable food, kept separate and signed as homemade
• Online, to Arizona addresses

Posting it to customers: Arizona only. Shelf-stable food can go by courier or a delivery app. Anything perishable, or with meat in it, you must hand over yourself, within two hours, to one address.

Worth knowing

• Take an accredited food handler course first, then register with the health department. Both renew every three years. No kitchen inspection.
• The label must say, word for word: "This product was produced in a home kitchen that may come in contact with common food allergens and pet allergens and is not subject to public health inspection." Add your name, registration number, every ingredient, the date you made it, and azdhs.gov/Cottagefood.
• Arizona is unusually broad: perishable food is allowed, sold direct to the eater. Meat and poultry only ride in on a federal exemption, which means a federally inspected source or the 1,000-bird poultry exemption.
• Out: alcoholic beverages, unpasteurised milk, fish, shellfish, and anything containing marijuana. Meat, meat by-products, poultry and poultry by-products are out too unless federal law allows that sale.
• To call something shelf-stable on a lab test you need water activity under 0.85 and pH at 4.6 or below.
• Your kitchen must be in a home of no more than 1,000 square feet. Cities can require a seller permit and a homeowners association can say no.

Where to actually sell it in Arizona

123 farmers markets and farm stands, which is one of the few places the rules above allow.

Markets in Arizona

Every state